Vetting of potential tenants is still the key to making this workout successfully for all parties.Hope this helps.

As such, you will be reducing your potential investment capital by a large amount. 

Is there a way we could co-sign on a mortgage, or simply have the title to the home in his name and I transfer a potential down payment directly to him?

I ran the numbers -ROI  potential 20% 

Do I have any potential claims against the Plaintiff's attorney?

We have limited space as it’s a couple effeciency apartments mixed with other one beds and a potential 2 bed.

I'm hard pressed to find potential renters who don't have major financial blemishes, let alone criminal records to boot.

Both of these eat into your cash flow potential.  

This is a lot different than the Browns in the sense that there is far less potential for people to travel into Cleveland for a Browns game than there is for CA Raiders fans to come to LV for a game.  

I have conducted my due diligence and found everything about this potential partner to be on the up and up.