If the answer is no, and the only goal is to sidestep some ability to deduct something, or be able to deduct a non-deductible personal expense ....assume it's a no-go. 

Trust your gut and ideally go off of a recommendation AND properly vet the lender.  

New occupants will be coming soon, but in a 3 family, i have set of excellent student tenants that renewed.That said, many landlord insurance policies have exclusions for students, so I am trying to gather info on updating a policy to consider the fact that the building is only going to be 33% student occupied.  

I would like to get some additional ideals on how to possibly go about this though.  

Also, go to local REI meetups! 

It's going to be tough to buy a property without steady W2 income.  8k is a good start, but you might need to keep saving.  

(zero claims or issues) We are looking at going with Obei Insurance, they focus specifically on investor real estate.

Exterior work just got going.

There is literally thousands of hours that go into it.

But it will go back to calling when the fad dies down and people are getting fewer calls and it will become profitable again.AI texts are still pretty easy to ignore.