I am not good with this for several reasons including I am personally responsible for this debt on paper, but he is going to benefit from continued ownership of this property, improved revenue and cash flow from this refinance and I am taking all the liability.

So it wasn't any website, it was 1 person possessive reference to "his company"  instead of straight 3rd person.  

As for the lease, if they aren't able to take possession on the lease date of Aug 1, you'd want to amend the lease and pro-rate your rent.

Or can you take possession of the property and for example rent it out?

Outside of real estate investments we are a strict Dave Ramsey no debt household so this decision seems counter intuitive to everything we've worked so hard to accomplish.  

I requested vacant possession, but it may not work out that way.  

Filed Writ of Possession and Sheriff posted the letter to the door.

Everyone went to college and took on a lot of debt.

My thinking is this...pull 35k out of my 401k, sell a car and pay off the rest and also pay off all credit debt to bring down DTI, Refi my home, use some of the money to do some upgrades, rent out and then doing it all over again.

If you have long-term, documented income (W-2), credit score over 700, and your debt-to-income ratio is low, you stand a pretty good chance.