A big part of guest experience is design and functionality of the home.

This question is asked a lot and there's a ton of value by just reading those previous conversations.In short, there are pros and cons to the program, all of which are well documented on the forums.

But in spite of the handful of drawbacks, the software is so good at its core functionality - bookkeeping and accounting for real estate - that there's simply no reason to use anything else. 

the land bank they are talking about is city owned property they took back for non payment of tax's or liens etc.. its NOT Bank/lending institution you buy the land from the city land bank they may have special programs for locals that are looking for owner occ situations.. either way if you pay cash which is how most of that is sold if not all of it.. then your credit does not matter.

Many lenders will consider this commercial use, so a standard DSCR program will not lend to it. 

As an individual or first-time investor- House Hack, lower interest rate/downpayment programs, local market knowledge, Rent a room, STR your house, Military BAH payments, etc.B. 

I mainly bought the large house because I had 3 three friends graduating from med school and masters programs and were getting jobs in / near the city. 

First you can buy an investment property with 15% down up to 4 units using a Portfolio program.

Pause.This new era would rather buy into a guru, a program, an app, or anything in between or something similar to do this work for them.

Right now, we manage over 150+ units that are on the Section 8 program so we're very familiar with it.This investment strategy definitely has it's pros and cons.