But, just be sure to keep your personal investment goals in mind...because ultimately a lender does not get paid unless they, essentially, help you acquire a loan.Honestly...personally, depending on exactly where my investors are in their investment journeys...I typically recommend exploring the financing route.

While it saddens me to hear this, ultimately this was not someone who should have been investing passively in syndications in the first place.

The ultimate goal would be to rent it out for short term stays or possibly as an event venue (in addition to being on farmland, it's surrounded by pine forest and waterfront).

Hi Madelaine,What ultimately made you decide not to continue with Fund & Grow?

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You probably also need to know if rent control survives the tenant, anotherwords does a new tenant allow you to charge market rent. 

NaseemaWhile you're looking at Cleveland you'll get a lot of value reading The Ultimate Guide to Grading Cleveland Neighborhoods. 

The buyer can ultimately use whatever lender they want.Here is what I know on the 5% down investor loan. 

So, in sum, house hacking can be when you are able leverage low down payments in order to control an asset (use an FHA loan and rent out the other rooms/units, use the VA loan with no down payment to ultimately turn the property into a rental property, etc.).