@Trish GeyerIt sounds like your husband is comfortable with you going after your first property (which is half the battle).  

Sounds like you´re on a great learning path!   

The OP made it sounds like he's there "all the time"....so I agree that there needs to be some definition to that statement..... if the guy is there a couple of nights a week, then let it slide.

Being relatively new to this, though, I don't know whether it would actually be a good deal for me (the current owner likely wouldn't accept it either, but I'd potentially be willing to try making an offer if my idea sounds reasonable).

From the sounds of it, I’m leaning on assigning a weight restriction, and limiting the amount of dogs and breeds a tenant can have on my property.

Sounds like you've already took some great steps towards building your financial wealth.

Sounds like you are talking about buying off market deals directly from the seller .

I’m not very familiar with DIG it sounds very similar to the group already there.

You sound more prepared than 99% of other investors.

I see that I was wrong on the Sec 121 exemption for the deceased spouse; upon further research, it looks like there is still some benefit, but that its a bit more complicated to calculate.The 1031 exchange sounds more interesting than I realized.