In my opinion, your first step is identifying your team.

A good attorney can identify potential problem areas ahead of time and work with you to craft the language so you are protected.Insurance AgentLike a good attorney, a good insurance agent is an essential member of your team.

This replacement of non-like receptacles, forced the technical committees and code writers to come up with language in the code, identifying this practice as not up to code and creating language that would allow enforcement of this practice.

Tell her that you would need to amend the lease, but to start she needs to identify the doctor that is prescribing the support animal. 

You mentioned the rent-to-buy strategy which is very coincidental because I just finished reading a chapter on lease-options in one of the BiggerPockets books and I am considering this for the reasons you identified.

You don't identify your location - but you should be able to purchase $150,000-$170,000 or so... definitely look for something you can add value too or use part as rental.

You want to identify the most active brokers in your market and start reaching out to them and establish some trust.Before you even start reaching out to brokers, you need to be well prepared and have a very clear understanding of what you are looking for and what your investment strategy is.

If he already has the one identified then that should suffice, but he is able to identify up to 3.

@Ryan RomingerYou know, asking myself what are my goals, just told me that I haven’t clearly identified what they are to myself.

Check out the Ultimate Beginners Guide here https://www.biggerpockets.com/real-estate-investingHave you identified what type of investing you want to get in to?