I’ve had experience with both traditional and private construction loans, and here’s my take:Traditional Lenders: The process can be slower with more paperwork and stringent requirements, but they usually offer lower interest rates.

This affords us excellent cash flow and lower maintenance on a 3-5 year commercial lease.

from your experience do you know if appraisers would choose closer comps but adjust a different search criteria such as a lower br/ba criteria and adjust the arv by 5-10k on a lower lower room or bathroom count or would they prefer a property further out just to match that criteria. this is probably a case by case basis.

Unfortunately many of the improvement costs do not deviate greatly when you’re renovating a lower cost property  in a particular market compared to a more expensive property  in the very same market which makes it difficult to absorb the improvement costs in some areas.

I would assume the reviews they have with them are on the lower side, and bigger PM companies are known to struggle with attention to detail on properties.

Find a military friendly realtor for lower commission fees if possible.  4.  

I would set up a family trust, if you have a ton of equity maybe you refi the properties into an LLC but if you are locked in with lower rates then I wouldn't touch the ownership piece yet. 

I found this deal on Zillow I didn't even try to negotiate the deal to bring the price lower.

They might be able to tell you why and help you move it up the search results for a while to help.I agree that lowering the pricing could be a mistake.

Well owners who already had section 8 tenants in place didn't want to spend $5, $10, $15k or more upgraded a unit that has a tenant in place just to maintain the rents they had (or have a slight increase) so a lot of section 8 approved properties stopped taking section 8.Right after COVID though, it seems that section 8 has lowered their standards a bit.