Who buys bonds with negative interest rates? 

Always use bond for title to purchase sellers property with heloc.  

I would wait at least a year until you are settled in your new career and can better access your new home environment.This will give you a chance to strengthen your re skills and define your long range goals. 

I would like to avoid using one until I've got a couple of properties under my belt as I'd intend on using conventional loans and my current assets are modest.However, my wife has significant holdings in real estate and stocks/bonds that were acquired prior to our marriage.If all of our future real estate purchases are in my name, are my wife's assets protected or are we viewed as a single "legal entity"?

You need a bond and must be insured as well as a license to close transactions now.

If you feel to "Exposed" based on your economic outlook, then strengthen your current position first, before either hitting a pause or pushing your next investment strategy. 

The Washington Post did a very interesting article last month (link below) that states most of the stocks and bonds we invest in have been over leveraging the companies in order to improve their bottom line and keep their dividends to investors up and stock price up.

I know that in MN, a business held as a rental cannot have work performed on it, outside of general contracting, by non-bonded/licensed contractors (i.e. it's illegal to do the electrical/plumbing/HVAC in a non-personally-owned property if you aren't a licensed contractor for those trades). 

my problem is the wording when it comes to varies terms such as mortgage, deed of trust, bonds in finance, i don't know how these words are used on a contract during a real estate transaction my guess is they are used during the drafting of new contractual agreements where you have pens at some table and multiple indivisuals signing there names at a specified area of the contract, and the words may also be used as contingency personally i would like to speak with a real estate attorney about this issue but i am operating on very limited knowledge 

My recommendation if you want to get into rentals is to see if you can find some really flexible sellers who will owner finance or even do a bond for title.Owner finance would be ideal, because then after a year or so you could hopefully refi out of it based on appraisal and seasoning.Bond for title you would not have any ownership necessarily so you cannot use it on a refi as pmt history.Another thought is to buy a fixer upper through owner financing or a lease option, live in it and fix it up and sell after 2 years to avoid taxes (a little more to it than this, but you get the idea).Or you could look into some creative ideas other than wholesaling, similar to Azam Meo's ideas (I personally like his ideas - very creative).Bottom line is I think if you want it bad enough, you will find a way to do it.