Maybe I'm a sap because I have a German Shepherd, but   if they are great tenants, and take care of the place and want to stay, and most importantly IMO is obviously treat the dog well and are responsible owners, I just think there are options to help alleviate the liability.

This would alleviate your need for rolling them into the mortgage.

But I figured that I could use the cash flow generated from the rental to continue financing my marketing to alleviate the burden on our finances. 

I would have to look into it further to see if some of my concerns could be alleviated. 1.

Does anyone know any tips or techniques that will help me alleviate lots of out of pocket costs it it becomes vacant and to sell quicker than what I would anticipate?

I can't keep writing $35,000 checks give or take forever to put 25% down on a property for a conventional loan so I'm trying to better understand how to maybe use CL's to alleviate this issue.I have much to learn on this but do have a fair amount of experience building my portfolio with conventional loans and am hoping commercial loans will help me continue to scale.Here are a couple of questions:1) when the balloon comes due (seems to be typically in 5 years), how often does someone have to actual pay the balloon payment and is unable to refinance?

To help alleviate the stress that inevitably follows the signing of closing documents, I created my own Step-Action-Guide.

Anyway, my son started at Baylor in the fall, so we bought a house that we can hopefully sell for same or more by the time he leaves, alleviating the rent expense.  

I get that it's more risk due to higher leverage in this scenario, but we have always been hyper focused on "buying right" and feel this alleviates some of the risk.

She is currently hurting for money and I'm trying to find a way to alleviate that issue at the same time.