House owe 59k value 99k (plus 300 month currently), needs about 15k rehab but not pressing 5.5%Our main home owe 185k value 375k 3.25%My thoughts are to refinance our home and pull out cash to buy another property (have cash for down payment and save some for emergencies/repairs).

For example, a garage on the property line (I still bought it, but had budgeted to tear it down), improperly discharged previous mortgages, improperly documented foreclosure judgements, and a strip of land that wasn't included accidentally (causing the property to violate setbacks). 

So if pressed I'd use that as part of my reasoning for denying the income source as well. 

We currently own one "accidental" investment property in Charleston already.  

My thought is that the agent is pressing the more expensive homes in order to receive a higher commission but I don’t want to speculate.

My guess is the PM messed up on this one either accidentally or on purpose. 

Came across bigger pockets accidentally and ever since fell in love with it.

But that you’d be hard pressed to rent a single family because the markets not there.

To your question as to setting up automatic payments… 90% of our tenants have a bank account (free) or credit card (3% fee)  linked to the application where they have individual logins, and they have to press one button to pay their rent.  

I’d probably just take half and move on personally but if you want to press the issue I’d send him a certified letter explaining your case and ask for the whole security deposit back minus the cleaning fee for what was left dirty, along with an apology for leaving it dirty.