If you do decide to start flipping homes- as a new investor you can either self finance with all cash, or you can contact a commercial lender like myself and expect terms to be 75-80% of the purchase price with 100% of the rehab financed through a draw.

The loan is with you, not with your tenant, so none of that means anything to them - in fact because you live in one unit and it's under 4, if you were self-managing you don't even have to abide by fair housing laws (at least on the federal level). 

It is entirely possible to self-manage with a strong cleaning team.

I am currently self employed as a GC with my own company: Carolina Premier Homes.

If land values are increasing significantly, you can back-end load the seller financing for a percentage of the profit when you sell.To add to prior comment, how many septic tanks do you have?

No management costs as it would be self managed, and estimated property taxes by the average of the past few years.

Increased housing inventory as new developments hit the market.2.

The article is based on # of sales, not price increase or decrease.

The median home sold price reached $582,329, reflecting a 9.7% increase from the previous year, with a median price per square foot of $325.

And while I agree that debt is often the cheapest form of capital, if you are looking at a project that involves some form of value-add business plan, you can always refi either when rates come down or you have increased the yield on the asset to exceed your interest rate.But like Stuart noted, for many groups, even the most seasoned syndicators, raising call cash for their deals is effectively impossible.