My best advice is to meet your lenders face-to-face at real estate clubs, conferences, or other professional events.

We meet twice a month: once to vet a passive investment together, and once to bring in an outside expert to present on their area of expertise. 

If you want to combine two or more lesser sales into one higher purchase that is fine as long as your purchase meets the timing requirements for each sale.  

Would love to connect and get to know/meet investors on here and form a relationship where we can help each other.Thanks any advice is greatly appreciated!

To avoid going through the same poor experience, keep reading.Even if someone gives you a referral here, do NOT make the mistake of assuming that the PMC will meet your expectations, just because they met the expectations of the referral source.In our experience, the #1 mistake owners make when selecting a Property Management Company (PMC) is ASSUMING instead of CONFIRMING.It's often a case of not doing enough research, as they don't know what they don't know!

I would assume that they were already tenanted with Section 8 renters since most of the time properties that pass municipal code requirements don't necessarily meet requirements for Section 8 rentals, meaning there is typically a list of repairs generated by the Section 8 inspector that need to be addressed even if the home previously passed a city inspection.  

This reasonable accommodation requirement is very easy to meet.

I'd like to meet the property management company and the business people(cleaning and handyman related) so I could paint a better picutre.Thank you for the info.

The challenge we're facing is the lack of short term rental data for the appraiser, and we won't know if it will meet the debt service coverage ratio (DSCR) requirements until the appraisal is complete.Has anyone dealt with a similar situation?

To avoid going through the same poor experience, keep reading.Even if someone gives you a referral here, do NOT make the mistake of assuming that the PMC will meet your expectations, just because they met the expectations of the referral source.In our experience, the #1 mistake owners make when selecting a Property Management Company (PMC) is ASSUMING instead of CONFIRMING.It's often a case of not doing enough research, as they don't know what they don't know!