Pat, that would be a red flag for a note investor.. although you could try it and list it on FCI exchange for instance and see what happens.

And some neighborhoods are doing better than others (in the mission for instance, $2-3 mil SFH’s are selling briskly.)

For instance, if you're getting $1500+/month in rent, I would probably go for the new system. 

For example, we've seen instances where a tree fell on a pedestrian.... or a fire that occurs at one investor's house catches the neighbor house(s) on fire.

Maybe you’ve heard of the marketing tip where a salesperson should never ask a yes or no question.For instance, “Would you like to by it” is a Yes or No question and often ends with a No.

@Alex Shaughnessy, a month to month lease continues for each month period until terminated with a 30 day notice (or potentially 60 day notice by landlord in certain instances). 

For instance, if the market rents on a subject property show as $1250.00 and you were paying $1500.00 with a $250.00 per month rent credit, then that will work and you get all the credits as down payment and possibly closing costs?

Obviously there are whole resort towns where you see this is standard practice, but there have also been instances where people lost their homes when trying to skirt both the law and the spirit of the law. 

That route would put me out of the game altogether.With this background now set,i mean to ask:if you were in my position,how would you proceed to structure a no-money down in this instance?

We had the inspections and it came back as needing a lot more work than I anticipated, for instance water lines were PVC pipes, not copper because the handyman didn’t want to spend the money on the copper piping.