We painted the inside, opened the kitchen/dining room, replaced windows, removed a nasty fabric lined black tub from the basement, replaced the siding and redid the bathroom.

Welcome advice on cost-effective way to transfer money.

Last week I made a post about getting a US mortgage as a US citizen who lives abroad (https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/49/topics/1219693-getti...). People responded by explaining that residential mortgage lenders ...

If a city fails to meet any of the additional criteria, remove it from the list.Sufficient population: cities with a metro population greater than 1M.

There are more effective ways to accomplish this.

They will confirm to you that the number has been steadily increasing year after year (Covid or recession effects aside).

If you only plan on owning 2-4 properties, then there's really no harm in self-funding them unless you know a better, safer way to make more than the going interest rate on that money (most investment mortgages right now are about 7%, maybe effectively 5.5-6% after taxes depending on your brackets and tax structure).

There is also algorithm advantageous to bi-weekly vs monthly, so a bit of a credit-hack boost effect to it. 

You've unfortunately unlocked the centipede effect by saying Columbus.

All liens are removed from the property as the result of sale at auction.We won the bid, wrote the check to the sheriff within 30 days, and today the deed was recorded, we are the owners!