I also personally hate the way laminate feels underfoot--cheap.

Would the best option be to put title and the mortgage in both of our personal names?

@Rodney Getsy I have some references for you as well if you want to shoot me a PM.As far as ATW I have never personally worked with them but I will say I haven't heard anything good about them in the years that I have been doing this.I have worked with a couple of the sellers trying to sell a house that they bought from them on owner finance terms. being the that the seller was being foreclosed on by them.

Once that deal is complete, I'd like to make the jump over to real estate investing and really focusing in on creating passive (as much as possible) residual income.I have no personal debt other than my mortgage, and I plan to work while getting started with this investing.I'm very interested in mobile home parks, self storage, and any other similar types of investments.

They typically want 35 to 40% down for STNL.If it was corporate guarantee and BBB- investment grade or better tenant then loan terms tend to be better with less down.Would require operator to give personal guarantee. 20 unit operator means nothing if they do not personally guarantee or they can put lease under just 1 to 4 stores for guarantee.Would want rental increases every year. 1% rent increase is generally reserved for corporate.

I know that personally I've made 40K over the last year from relationships built through BP.

Now that latter group (personal opinion) is a little biased because of the last 7-8 year worth of appreciation.  

foundation work can be expensive, but when repaired properly and defects are corrected I would, sign any limited lifetime warranty, but I refuse to market that way personally....I would rather explain this to my customers why they do that instead of just being honest and say it's marketing and then break it down

I personally will invest there on any "good" deal I find.

The person needs a contractors license to perform the work he did and can be fined tens of thousands .a handyman can not do work that needs a permit or is over a $1000 bucks When confronted he will remove the lien or face the consequences