Update: We went ahead with moving the wall -- in a two-phase process.  

I like your perspective on finding someone with a similar lifestyle and similar spiritual attributes.

I am now paid ahead similar to @Adrian Rae, and now just make my minimum payments and just take my snowballed car/debt payments ($500/month) and put it into a new checking account each month for RE investing only. 

While in school, I am working to supplement my education with real estate and get ahead of the curve.

@Cosette Trantow Assuming that AZ MLS is roughly the same as MA/ME MLS, I can tell you that an actual MLS feed is not only more accurate than using data-scrapers like Zillow and Trulia, but you'll get listings about a day faster.In a very hot market like we have here in eastern MA, that 1 day jump might make the difference between getting an offer in ahead of the crowd and competing with the crowd.Our system will email our clients within 15 minutes of a new listing hitting the market. 

If you go ahead and do it yourself be careful..

@Alex Griffith Good to see you thinking ahead!

Hopefully you did your homework ahead of time on their company, how they operate, and how you may be able to help each other.

Reason is there's been scams where a mortgage is taken out, the landlord collects 12 or more months up front, and skip town.For those I gave the go ahead, I had them give me 12 post dated checks up front.

i’ll move ahead with this then.