The amount of work and effort to get this accomplished and what it really saves you is not what you think it will be.

The median income is low but the amount of renters is high.

Note that I do not put a lot of time into due diligence until the "contract to hold" meeting, when they put some skin in the game.At the "contract to hold" meeting, I collect an amount equal to one month's rent.

That experience taught me the importance of leaning on local expertise, even if it feels like an unnecessary expense at first.One strategy I’ve seen work occasionally is offering the tenant a “cash for keys” deal, where you pay them a small amount to vacate voluntarily.

No different than if the mortgage amount was more than anticipatedThe assumption here is your purchase price was going to pay off the mortgage and the other liens - If not you don’t cancel closing you let them cancel it because they cannot bring funds to closing

This allows me to seed the property for 6-12month, then refi, and pay the full amount of the HELCO back in one payment. 

. - Note: the insurance company's adjustor will try to minimize your claim amount.

The facts are the same as in Example 1, except that B's child turns 13 on February 1, 2008, and B pays for the care provided in January 2008 on February 3, 2008... ...the amount B pays will be an employment-related expense under section 21, because B's child is a qualifying individual when the services are performed, even though the child is not a qualifying individual when B pays the expenses.So we CAN, after all, claim expense up to the birthday day!

@Kevin M Dobyns-Do they provide commercial loans for rentals or buy to live for a certain amount of time then list it as rental?

and... there's still a good amount of competition on those.