He said he wanted to go into a cave and hide so they could not find him to exercise them and buy him out because "if you can get 10% a year on my investment I never want the principle back" .  

I have kept up my contractors license but I haven't done any major work due to physical limitations for years.

Note that "townhouse" is a description of a physical appearance, not of a legal regime. 

I'm A New Real Estate Investor, Im Looking for some Clarity concerning title companies.heres my question , Do Sellers have to attend the title company office physically?

However since I physically don't make a lot of money on paper my debt to income ratio reflects higher to a bank than I feel it should...

For example, when I scheduled an appliance repair, I don't want to have to go searching for a photo of the appliance to read what model it is or hunting in a physical file to find the receipt. 

@Mario A Garza  If you are looking for physically distressed properties you might want to also consider taking a look at recent code violations issued in your area.

Location usually weighs in first, then size, quality and physical condition.

What I would like to ask is, what are my landlord rights, while waiting for the legal proceedings to complete itself, to protect my property from harm (damage caused by squatter, be it not turning on heat and causing all the pipes to freeze, to physically trashing the property, exposing it to water damage, to burning down the property), and protect me from squatter excessively using water and electricity?

My plan is to start by investing in one single home residence and rent it in year one to better help me get a hands on physical experience in what it is like to have rental property.