Their standards are higher than any normal renter which is odd based on the type of clients they represent.

So normally I would say $x for year long lease and $x+$100/$200 for MTM.

Prices stopped climbing, unemployment grew, and individuals sud denly realized that they were no longer holding on to investments but rather playing in the world’s largest game of legalized gambling—and they had just lost.

ls it normal for him to ask for more and then give us $ 50k less?

. - Normally in real estate contracts, the seller is required to deliver the property in the same condition it got under contract for.

Only time you can increase the rent more than that is normally during a turnover. 

Ironically, it normally takes more work than you are doing right now because you have to keep your day job, build a team, find an area to invest, vet vendors, fill out mortgage applications, put in offers, analyze deals, etc...

In your normal course of business, you may choose to try to pass that fee onto the tenant.

If you have $100,000 in your brokerage account to borrow against, why not just use the money and secure a traditional loan, versus gambling with an unknown and variable future rate?

And in the first 4 to 6 months he will net over 100k on a 20k investment And I make my normal funding fee's which are higher than HML fees  but I dont do appraisals and i have zero junk fees..