By BRRRRing, you can achieve your goal of acquiring four houses with minimal effort and financial strain, allowing you to shift from buying to paying them off.

.- Institutional Capital & Private Equity: By moving from hard money to institutional financing, you can secure larger credit lines with better terms.

It was all really quick, and the time to complete everything happened a lot faster than I expected (which was a good thing).I was worried at first that I had to use all the partners that Rent to Retirement had, but it was really easy for me to shop around for different lenders with different terms and rates, insurance providers, and property management company.

The technical term is Sound Transmission Class. 

I would echo most of the above in terms of screening process/flow. 

However, there are other loans designed for fixer uppers referred to us hard money loans, bridge loans, or fix and flip loans but whatever you want to call them they're essentially short term, interest only loans with no prepayment penalties designed to finance a higher % of your purchase price and typically all of your renovations not to exceed a certain % of the ARV (typically 75% max). 

Along those lines, if the owner gives you a very FIRM "NO" when you present your proposal to rent their home for the purposes of doing STR (short-term rental).   

It is a very long term investment but would sell for insane profits C.

Hard money rates/terms so awful I don't see it as a viable option unless have some insane deal.

And, appreciation is always a nice bonus.I assume a long term hold is your plan.