There may be some products available through a brokerage that requires less, but you may need to do a little digging. 

I wanted to add to the Why, should a investment property buyer use a DSCR program over a Full Conventional purchase or refinance, as we do all programs, whether for a primary, 2nd home or investment property.Currently Full doc loans, meaning using tax returns (2 years) for qualifying can be tedious work and interest rates are higher compared to our DSCR products, since on Fannie Freddie conventional loans require LLPA's ( loan level price adjustments) added to the base rate.

Interest only on 30 products used to be decent but now for what you save in the interest only period you really pay the price later when that period ends.If you are getting under value by 30%, then a plain FRM should work fine. 

I have to slow down and really analyze the cost vs. benefit before jumping in.My personal life is the same.

I've done the single family method and it was too slow for me and just ate up too much time, although I learned a ton.

I heard rates for commercial actually went up and they have such an uptick in business that they are slowing things down and wanting to push some business towards 2025.

I would suggest you use a different non-qm loan product that allows for family members to occupy but doesn't require you to make it a primary residence.

I agree that tariffs can be justified against certain countries like china on specific products where their govt is clearly subsidizing the manufacture of those goods and dumping the products to try to run the competition into the ground.That being said. 

What types of products are you seeking?

It might be a good idea to look into what tech related companies are emerging with real estate-related products.