Recognize her viewpoint on homeownership and investigate possible accommodations or different approaches that satisfy her need for a family home as well as your goals of financial freedom.Examine if investing in rental properties while temporarily renting your primary property is in line with your financial and lifestyle goals.Education and Preparation: Invest some time in learning about property management, tenant relations, and real estate investing.

I can understand your viewpoint.

To offer a viewpoint not previously mentioned, consider asking the seller to subordinate their 75% to allow your private money to take the first position.

.- Financing seems much riskier, since you have to make the mortgage payments regardless if you have a tenant or not if you finance, but if you own not having a tenant would stink, but you still are getting the appreciation and the risk of going negative cash flow is MUCH less.Thanks -I am really interested in hearing different viewpoints.

Be there PAID assistants that's where you will learn and create a much better foundation for yourself than trying to read on line and BP s 10k different view points.. 

@Joshua Bailey, there are many valid viewpoints on this and I don't want to try to give any exhaustive opinion.

Thanks for the additional viewpoint @David M..

So, from the borrowers viewpoint not much has changed.  

I know this is an old thread that got revived, but I want to make sure that anyone reading this gets a view point from a local investor.Out of state investors must be very, very careful no matter where they are investing, but they also have to be very careful not to get ahead of themselves, especially as it relates to knowledge of an out of state market.  

@Peyton LaBarbera, as you can see there's still quite a divergence of view points not necessarily backed up by law.