Hi @Christopher Phillips.  

Trust your gut as much as your head about what they are telling you.Heres my list of priority's. 1) Get to know your finances. 

@Christopher Phillips Thanks for the advice.

Start young, you're heading in the right direction. 

I do my own taxes and this always has me scratching my head.

Picked this tip up from The book on investing in real estate for no (and low) money down by Brandon Turner himself.Lastly, I have head of 1% loans in AZ but they require a high credit score (above 700) so as not to produce sub prime loans..still a little worrisome with that kind of leverage in my opinion ..but I digress.Hope this helps!

I'm scratching my head for solutions to partner up with someone local and make it happen.

I laughed my head off.

So before we draft the agreements and head down to a lawyer, I'd like to run it by experienced folks in this forum.My take is that partner provides the sweat equity, and I provide the real estate; ie, free use of the house as a facility, but ownership and major maintenance remains mine. 

On the inside it is easy to tell kids would come in and hang out and get wild as there were dozens of liquor bottles and cigarette butts strewn throughout all the units.The carpet was horrendously stained with God knows what but luckily it didn't smell as bad as it could've thanks to no windows :) Holes in all the drywall and most faucet heads missing.