Please note there are a lot of variations of this program and will be lender specific.

The existing rents can have minor variations based on the quality of the property and updates it has.

I have my license with a Brokerage that understand the contract variations that we may need to use to buy RE... - now, for my broker, he does not require me to pay him a monthly fee, if I buy or sell through MLS I have a “nominal” fee to him but I don’t pay him anything if it’s off MLS who makes it a win-win for him and I... - find some REI who are also RE Agent and ask them who they hang their license with and contact them to see what they offer and the fees they would charge you...- now, this brokerage I have does not do training for RE Agent really, I can ask questions but no formal training, but again, I only use my MLS accès to comps my deals and go and look at them...

Typically there is a lot more variation in what is needed to qualify so talk to a few banks.

@Barbara ChaneyThe first lauderdale area also has little variations whether it's the South Side, near Wilton Manors, Pompano, etc.

This helps with the contacts as well as the variations between jurisdictions.   

There are variations of this type of partnership when one party might not have all the cash or have less than the desired amount of experience.

There are always processes to change the Zoning or obtain variations; however, these processes are not guaranteed to be approved, and can leave you having spent time and money with no results.

As long as the colors match (stainless steel can have variations) and they are obviously new then that has always been good enough in my area.

I wrote down, the bedroom, bathroom and square footage and price of all the rentals in the area.Then I used multi-variate linear regression to predict what the rents would be on a unit that was x bedrooms, y bathrooms and z square footage!