They can teach you how to evaluate a market, how to improve and automate a property, systems to reduce workload, pricing, and more.

All this infinity banking, the death benefit is reduce to pay for the loan, etc. is the distraction.  

If you are trying to further decrease your initial cash outlay, you might try to pursue a closing cost credit from the seller as part of your offer where you ask the seller to kick in a certain amount of money at closing to reduce your closing costs and thus some of your initial out of pocket cash spend.

Gives you a good entry into being a landlord and also reduces your living expenses.

If she chooses to retire at 65 and stop being productive, then she should reduce her living expenses accordingly instead of expecting the government or her Landlord to make things easy on her.My mom is 76.

So, 60 payments with an added $43/payment < $2500...which is all the roof would reduce your cumulative CF...not $6500 out of pocket. 

Your chances of landing a job where you will use your degree will be greatly reduced the longer you stay out of the field.

I like using leverage to acquire, but seek to reduce the principle in the shortest time period possible.  

If the improvement allows you to rent faster then your competition and reduces your DOM then it might make sense.

It's nice to have some confidence that we could do that when partnering on deals.However, the biggest reason by far that I'm personally interested in pursuing the partnership is to reduce my risk.