However it is not like a lone steel plant closing in a small town when it comes down to its core economy health. I

Are you looking to get into REI to quit your day job, supplement you income or to create a healthy retirement.

We began by purchasing older (as in Second Empire, Victorian, Edwardian, with a couple of post WWII houses) buildings and renovating them to be healthy energy efficient homes for our tenants.Our roadmap has always had the longer term objective of building new multi-unit buildings (townhouses and/or apartment complexes) to Passivhaus standards.  

At this point I have a good idea of the investment strategy I want to pursue, and a pretty healthy down payment ready to go.I am interested in cash-flow properties, and more specifically, in what has been coined "hybrid" real estate investment.

Keep in mind, the forms are jointly created by NCREC and the NCBA.

If they pass, we add them to the rental agreement as jointly and severally liable.

In short, I'm just encouraging a healthy brainstorm of all the creative ways that influence accomplishing this objective.

Could be that it's listed similarly to Joint Tenancy wherein if one of the title holders dies, their interest in the property automatically reverts to the surviving joint tenant.

With a healthy advanced notice, let them know you're raising the rent to market rate.  

We want the city because we like downtown and we want healthy distance from some family in the area.