You may have to get creative...find a duplex in a good area and Airbnb the units or find an SFR with a legal accessory dwelling unit and live in the smaller unit while renting out the main etc. 

But,  the owners have the legal right to the house. 

With flipping you also pay higher taxes since it's considered active income and with rental property you get a much smaller pay day, but you also pay little to no tax on the gains since it's passive and therefore have a number of tax advantages you can take. 

Has anyone partnered with an owner to flip a house and if so I did you legally structure the deal?

He's always had that 'hustle', it just took him some years to apply it to legal endeavors like motorcycles and car audio, haha.   

Throw in syndications and private money and you can see the similarities.The reason I bring this up is because it seems like there is a very thin line between legal and illegal practices sometimes especially when it comes to borrowing money or raising money to invest.

Every other post on BP seems to be about "wholesaling" with little thought of legalities, let alone the damage done to the public. 

I assume that an eviction would speed up the process since I could lay claim to various legal issues.

“At the end of March, we observed price gains that put us on pace for half of the homes listed this summer to be above $300,000,” Vivas said.

Don't be fooled by the "pro", I already gained enough information from this site that I already felt like I had to give back before moving forward.