The other options you are playing with fire as using a HELOC that is paying interest is essentially buying with 100% financing.Having no skin in the game has always been a high risk strategy and people were able to get away with it the past few years due to the money supply and inflation but I would not use that as the measuring stick.

When you're doing your due diligence in MF just make sure they are not over leveraged and have some skin in the game.  

I had a guy come to one of my houses recently and he said the situation improves once moisture is removed.  

I guess the mice have chewed the insulation.Additionally, the drywall at basement detected moisture.

The property owner always loses while the arbiter has no skin in the game at all, just skimming profits off of the owner and can walk away any time they want without reprocussions. 

That is reality because the receiver of the info has no skin in the game, nothing to  hold them to the "advice".

Moisture Issues2.

As you can imagine, it drastically cuts down on the amount of water use when the tenants have skin in the game.

We’d bring them back up to the house , skin em and sautee with butter and garlic..

Borrowers need skin in the game.