If you want to joint venture and add $ to the deal, contact me offline.

Far better to make a little money on your first deal than to get in over your head right away.While meeting other investors and RE professionals like @Edmund Ricker said, you may consider partnering with someone on a joint venture.

And any profits can be transferred from that account to your personal account or a joint account with your spouse for general use.

I have invested in hedge funds, gold silver,stocks bonds and various other business to include car lots,pizza joint,construction business,pawn shop,and other things i am to embarrassed to mention.

If a roommate leaves, the vacancy is yours.If you rent as a single dwelling with all the tenants on the lease, they are jointly and severally responsible for the obligations.

If it flexes screw the heck out of it.3) Prime any exposed areas with interior primer/sealer4) Apply joint compound to get it nice and even5) SandI'm currently sitting in my basement which i still need to trim, I had to do the whole walls, my contractor buddy was suppose to do it, but he got attacked by a cat and his hand needed an operation.

Would you put the leases in our joint names or only in the name of who owns that property?

The HOA is all over me and the renter about knee-high weeds, but they get that way in 3-4 days with their seed pods.

Joint tenancy may suffice in a swift transition & will avoid probate. 

I read a suggestion on a DIY forum to tape the wall/ceiling joint flat (butt the tape into ceiling instead of overlapping) so you don't have to disturb then try to match the popcorn.