See if "he" has a real estate attorney to draw up the paperwork, the note, the terms, and can take care of the closing at the courthouse.

If you are renting room by room this becomes less of an issue because you just replace the tenant in that room which from my experience is pretty easy in the DC Metro area.Good luck! 

This was a bit of an inconvenience for him as I was going to have the bathrooms done on both the first and second floor.

The rubber hits the road if you (as the owner) have to pay for utilities, lawn care, etc. in some scenarios and not in others. 

One thing to be careful of here if you are planning to flip the property is not just what the ARV is, bit what will the appraisal come back it.

I have a dear friend (a realtor who lest that business in the recession) who now works for a foster care agency.

Each country is going to be different so you need to do your research carefully.

Although you can try to control who rents your place, you need to be very careful.

Through all the communication with her and her Navy assigned advocate, we have no faith that she is going to move until the Navy sets up this special move and could care less  when that is.   

I imagine most people don't care too much about the wholesaler fee as long as the deal makes sense to them.