Be careful, however, about recognizing the distinction between what is technically possible versus practically feasible. 

There are currently 3 kitchens and three distinct living spaces but I would not have to completely separate them or convert the building to multi family.

I haven't considered making a distinction between politics surrounding real estate and the politics of social issues. 

I ended up servicing the loan out of my own pocket for a couple of years--another $400K down the drain but ultimately the rebounding prices will allow me to recover that when I sell someday.Moving on to your questions, which are two distinct questions with different answers. 

The title will transfer to you (the buyer) at the close.The main distinction is that in rent to own you don't technically own the property if you are the rent to own renter and in seller financing you own the property as soon as you close on it like any normal house purchase would happen.Hope this helps! 

One coat and it covered the red and orange amazingly.As for the actual color, it's Pittsburgh Grand Distinction "Winter Wheat" Interior Latex Paint - also just one coat.

You create separate (or series) entities that hold the risky assets, which are themselves held by a holding company that is owned by two distinct legal entities (a single-member LLC is ineffective, and so is anything with two mirror entities such as husband and wife), each having a different class of membership interest and "poison pill" provisions that create tax ramifications for any judgment creditor that wants to attach the membership interest.  

NOw I am not familiar with the legislative action you speak of as I sold out in 1992... but I do remember that one distinctly because of my loss mit  with my clients was very frustrating.. and unfortunately I did not have the 200k to just buy them all out ... that property sold in 1996 for 5 million... try as I might I could not talk sense into the hold outs:(

., to the best of my knowledge, the Tax people do not make a distinction between "active" or "passive" Real Estate Investors, except how they define "RE Professionals".

My company operates to two distinct strategies, one for flip and one for rental.