Just find a agent willing to allow you as an assistant.8.

Perhaps that can assist you out of debt and get you on the right track to find equity-based investments without putting yourself in more risk. 

Unfortunately there are so many people who spend time focusing on the negatives: income and social impact etc., that we fail to look for ways to make the investment NOW.  

I have never been reimbursed for this spending.

You are going to eat some costs and spend more than you budgeted for.

I have a question regarding assistance animals under the Fair Housing Act. 

If you do not marry you will need legal separation on your investments going forward.Based on your self employed income I would strongly recommend you get a job that will assist in your investments going forward.

But we bought at a price point where the mortgage was well within our ability to qualify for a SFH.That way, if we hated being landlords, we would end up with a house whose mortgage was in line with what we would spend anyways on housing. 

As Sean mentioned, it is so important to do the due-diligence, run the numbers, develop and use your network to assist in the process. 

I do not work right now and spend about 12 hours a day, 7 days per week, on learning about real estate investing with a current dream of being able to walk again someday, work,  and to contribute to my family again.I do not know why this happened but I will continue on.