In the public eye you are viewed as more legit as opposed to others.

With live-in flipping, how can you figure out what part of your gains is from the real estate market increase as opposed to gains from your own sweat equity and rehabbing? 

Having said that, they are usually a higher interest rate loan as opposed to a conventional mortgage and the max that Suncoast will loan on a HELOC is $100K.

Also, much of the younger generation prefers to rent as opposed to buying.

Some folks like the volume that MF can bring immediately, as opposed to the slower growth of adding one SF at a time. 

If they stumble then they are their friend....You don't forget those kind of details unless you are incompetent....I've done this with tenants that came from a single family home as opposed to a verifiable apartment complex for the last 3 years.

We are now considering the western side of Montana.I am especially looking at multi-family but am not opposed to single family.  

The argument can further be made that even advertising the sale of the contract (as opposed to advertising the property) is still brokering because you are bringing a buyer and seller together with the full intention of receiving compensation for your efforts.

The downside is restrictive guidelines, a ton of paperwork, lack of flexibility.Commercial types of financing have pros that are flexibility in guidelines and structure you can do all sorts of stuff from substitution of collateral to partial lien releases on blanket commercial mortgages to cross collateralization and many others, less documentation than conventional financing products, use of debt coverage ratio (DCR) as opposed to Debt to income (DTI) and if you compare DCR to DTI the commercial lenders go up to 80% DTI since the reverse of 1.25x DCR is .80 or 80%.There are downsides to commercial financing and that is the convenants with in the mortgage note that can allow the lender to call the note so make sure to read all the definitions for what substantiates a "default," by the lender you'll be surprised by the definitions and language at times. 

I'm trying to raise them with an eye on financial freedom as opposed to the old "get a good job and work hard" path.