That's super cool to be able to witness and support such a milestone. 

Lenders might also require a history of rental income on the property or at least a market rent analysis to support the numbers.Given that you’re also looking for down payment assistance, which typically comes with its own set of lender requirements, your options might be a bit more limited.

Investors are building LIHTC, and other affordable projects in these areas, but new multifamily can not today be built to support the rents that a D area has. 

While losing the 2.5% interest rate is tough, prioritizing a business structure that supports long-term growth might outweigh that loss.

@Paul Dentinger we support a lot of Real Estate Investors in MT and they provide us with intel on who the top property managers in Missoula.

A few of ours barely have an accent (they studied here for years).They are trained for level 1 support and filter out 95% of common issues for us, the other 5% go to management here locally to handle.

With their appraisals do they loan based on the market appraisal or do they loan on what the DSCR supports like 1.3?

you can form a little mastermind of folks doing the same thing and support each other.it just doesn't make sense for folks with no experience to partner.good luck

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In my real Estate brokerages I have owned 90% women  in lending lots of women loan officers and of course support staff is mainly women.. at The title companies I work with their is maybe one male and 10 to 20 females all the senior escrow officers are women.the only time i see men in the escrow side of things is back east in states that use attorneys to close deals and those are generally all men.. as in the attorney that owns the practice is male and his staff is generally female  Not all but majority of the companies I have closed with back east are like this,