You have great opportunities ahead of you, and thanks to partnerships I'm getting my start!

Anything I should be aware of or plan ahead of?

Go ahead and have one of them, PLACE ALL of your properties in a Land Trust.

You are correct that you won't be able to tap that property any time soon for equity, but you will be getting into a property months (maybe years) ahead of what you be able to do with 20% down.

This is a good question and a solid practice to build into your systems.I'd recommend reading the chapter on "Managing Tenants" in The Book on Managing Rental Properties by @Brandon Turner - specifically the section on periodic inspections around page 180.I use HVAC filters that need to be changed every 3 months, which gives me a "harmless" opportunity to get inside, and I'll communicate to the tenants "and while I'm there changing that, I'll go ahead and do the quarterly inspection and save you a bit of time and hassle." 

Sounds like if you have a high FICO, low balance and pay on time, you should go ahead and ding your credit with a strategic default so you will have crappy enough credit to qualify for a mortgage.

In fact, lining up buyers ahead of time for spec builds is the way to go.

If he had bought 1 dollar of gold and done nothing else, he would have been 2 million and 3 dollars ahead of where he was.The kind of investor you're describing is an "inflation fearing" investor.

Yes I would go ahead and have those other strategies in the works and plan like the waiver is going to fail so you are not just starting things waiting to hear what happens.If you have a copy of the recent appraisal sometimes the new lender will let you use it.Hopefully others can chime in as I don't play in this space much.

The problem now is one title company told me because JOHN was on title (albeit illegally) for 3 months, one of his judgement debtors MIGHT come back into the picture and "jump into first position ahead of the 1st Mortgage".I've spoke to 3 other title companies in LA today and they said, "SInce at the time of the quit claim deed MARY didn't in fact own the property, she had no right to add JOHN to title.