Most rentals with higher perceived risk can be offset by requiring an excess security deposit and/or a third-party guarantor for the lease, and/or prepayment of rent. 

The plan is to house hack and rent to friends so they cover my mortgage while banking that excess cash flow to get started on another property after a year or two of living in the first property.

Even if there were some type of fee -that seems pretty excessive for what I think is supposed to be public information!    

Lifecos tend to have a pricing advantage for loans with fixed-rate terms in excess of 10 years, and can offer the ability for borrowers to lock in the interest rate at the time of application.

If I'm looking to rely on conventional bank loans, banks in Cayman consider any properties in excess of 2 units (triplex or higher) to be 'commercial' for the purposes of lending.

You are better off writing into your lease that if a leak starts to happen and they don't tell you then they are responsible for the cost of the excess damage/water.

Account ClosedWorking at Holton-Wise and seeing how many tenant leads we get daily, in an excess of 50+, even if the Cleveland population is "decreasing" people are constantly looking for new apartments/doubles/houses to move into.

This has caused office demand shrinkage and excess inventory on the market even though not much new office is being built.

Look for an 'excess & surplus" general agent.

Should I sell my house, use any excess profit I make to purchase a duplex and start over from?