My best advice is to reach out to a local broker, and try to see if anyone will insure the home as is, if not you may have to invest some money in the home to bring it up to building code. 

I think the easiest order to do this, is to create LLC, get loan in your name, quick claim dead the property to your LLC right after closing.

My plan is to start off by owning a duplex that I live in one side and rent out the other.

My goal is to start with one SFR/townhouse/condo in a decent area and go from there. 

Some of the advice that I have heard is to keep the properties in the same geographic area to make it easier to obtain portfolio financing.  

@Ian Ray Not sure if you plan to hold all 3 but it depends on the deal structure and that we can see the numbers on a BiggerPockets calculator for example.So what would help us all here in analyzing this deal without disclosing the address is to provide the following to the Potential Partner.Number of units?

My plan is to either 1.) fix and flip 2.) fix, move in, and rent my current home/house hack. 3.)

My goal is to NOT let the seller see what I will be making on this deal because he has an "extremely light fuse" (sort to say) that can explode and just walk out on the deal seeing that I'm walking away from the deal with 3-times more than him.

@Francis Dinh the entire point of using a title company is to do a title search and find issues like this.

The best solution is to either use your capital for a smaller deal, or bring someone on as an equity partner.