My wife and I are going to attempt the house hacking method of owning a multi-family.

A word of caution muratic acid is a dangerous chemical that one should know how to use before attempting. 

Many of my out of state partners tell me they almost stopped investing out of state because they had a bad experience with their first attempt.

I believe his latest attempt to give me grief is complaining of a broken dryer(possible tampered with).

Don't attempt this by yourself.You could get lucky, but I've seen some of the documents offered by title and escrow and I strongly suggest you avoid them for both your protection and that of your lender.

So in an attempt to begin taking action I did some driving for dollars this weekend.  

As a wholesaler, I've learned to reach out to other wholesalers to attempt to close deals.  

So in an attempt to begin taking action I did some driving for dollars this weekend.

It took the plumber that installed it 3 attempts to fix it.  

I would only attempt to take the seller's name off of note if I could get a much better rate with refi'ing or possibly selling all together.