There should be no upfront fees for the loan, other than an appraisal.Their website is also full of typos and grammar errors.

You have to keep your eye on the total market cap and compare that to news that is being announced in real time, it can be exhausting.

Some that come to mind but not an exhaustive list in/around the city are Brighton Heights, Bellevue, Avalon, Carnegie, Crafton, Ingram, Beechview, Brookline, Troy Hill, Millvale, Etna, Sharpsburg, West View, Greenfield, Brentwood, Coraopolis, Bridgeville. 

It sounds like this is a primary residence purchase if it is for your family, so that would result in a different answer than an investment property.

Exhausting. :-) 

Do you know if your friend has the loans in their personal name rather than an LLC?

It’s nice getting a better interest rate than an investment property, and putting less down.

If it exist, it's usually on SFH under $180k, and at that point, the profit is so little, it's not worth the headache.I have clients with portfolios of 15+ single families in this range, and to see them pocket $200-300/month is exhausting lol.One maintenance request erases 6 months of cash flow.

MTR is treated like an LTR from what I understand and I already own a couple LTR's so would rather do more of those than an MTR and avoid the extra hassle of furnishing, etc.  

You can certainly buy a property that cash flows immediately, but once you add a property management fee and the cost of someone to clean it between rentals (which can be much more expensive than an average cleaning if they have to do a trash-out), it may negate the benefit of buying in a lower-cost area. 3.