And there is definitely ways to structure a sub to deal to protect yourself a little better as a buyer but the problem is and will always be that the lender isnt in the loop with this and can call the loan at any point which puts a lot of risk on the sellers willing to do this method and the buyers who are investing money into these deals.

This is located in Pennsylvania.Thanks in advance for your help, and have a Blessed Christmas!

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there are of course more creative strategies to reduce that up front outlay, or recoup your capital, like, say, the BRRRR method. but they are time and energy intensive and certainly not hands-off. 

In today's market, if a tenant doesn't have a credit score than we ask of advanced rent.

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We do not want to borrow our equity against our current home to fund the investment property so just looking for ideas on how we should go about doing this.Thank you in advance for your answers.

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So I'm strongly considering adding a handful of these to my buy & hold portfolio.I understand that there's no "risk-free" method to acquiring these properties subto, but have any of you had success over the long-term acquiring properties with VA loans attached?

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