I've seen some good deals pop up lately as builders have been trying to sell inventory that has been sitting. 

How long will the space sit vacant if they leave before you find a new tenant?

A place my extended family could come and visit me at and be comfortable sitting in the room.

So the only money a lender makes is the fees and origination.Civic should you what happens when lenders try to sit on their own notes - when the market slipped and their loans started defaulting they went under.Now, sometimes a broker has a corresponding lender agreement with a lender which means that all the broker fees are white labeled into the HUD and grouped with the lenders and now you can't tell what fees are the lenders and which are the brokers.

She heard what the HML was doing and had a nice HELOC at under 2% sitting there going unused and she decided she'd use the bank's money (the HELOC) to make the float (5% diff plus the 3pts on every deal.

If you can get a primary residence rate on it and STR it when you move out, you'd probably be sitting pretty. 

It will sit on their credit and prevent them from qualifying for a loan or taking advantage of another landlord.

I would not let my tenants sit in a house with no AC for a week in what's literally the hottest period of the year. 

It is good to make this type of deal if you have a property that's hard to sell or sitting.

Are you going to sit next to your accountant and watch that she does not take any breaks?