To me, its a balance.

I have rented several homes before this and nobody has complained to me every month when they paid rent. 

I dont know if they'll accept an appraisal value based on income approach instead of sales comp approach but if you want me to send you the banker's info and you can ask her, then DM your email address to me. 

Yes, this is a true-real life drama.Thank you for your input and suggestions.My business partner presented this to me but I could not offer any direction as her legal counsel is not assisting the family in a manner of resolving the conflict.

Sounds like you’re living there to me.

I'm certainly not looking to quit my day job(s), but real estate investing looks so interesting to me that I will definitely be making it a priority with the goal of closing our first deal by the end of this year.  

Feel free to reach out to me if there is anything I can help you with!

So I sent flowers and a condolences card and 2 weeks later he called and said he would sell it to me.

I qualify for the loan with my income alone without her being apart of the process and to me didn’t seem necessary and wrote a letter of explanation stating that. 

The locksmith idea sounds like a bad one to me.