Every little minor detail and regulation you want in the lease but that lease is just as good as the ones signing it ..it’s only good if they actually read it or follow it which most wont anyways .look  If they are paying the rent and not destroying the place then leave them be .your going to be losing tenants money and your sanity by forcing a leopard to change its spots .

While i believe it is significantly less than what you have now, there is a number that banks normally wont surpass.

Since I'm not full time my concern is I wont be able to get affordable healthcare.

As I am realizing just how much I had been missing out on my whole life, 4 days after our baby boy was born, my 36 year old wife suffered a 1 in 100,000 complication of pregnancy, a massive bilateral brain hemmorhage right in front of me. 

Can I sustain this sort of physical abuse for another 30 years and actually expect to squeeze out any sort of quality of life for the "retirement" I probably wont get to enjoy?      

What legal things need to be addreess with a private loan to not have legal issues and how come equity partnership wont have legal issues.

I'm a gc and I agree with your GC ideas somewhat.I agree for any REHAB job under 40k, you dont need us and a real GC wont even touch those jobs.Me personally I don't even look at a job unless the budget is 200k and above

While I can see the appeal of going with a cheaper used unit, there is no guarantee it wont succumb quickly and out your right back in the same situation.

I wont make that mistake again.

I mean many wont even look at or show renter occuppied homes becasue of the hassle factor.