Credit, LTV and DTI will always play the largest roll.

BRRRR - higher risk, but you can roll the cash over and over to scale quickly.

Here's the scenario: In escrow on property, seller provides rent roll and tenant is 10 days late on first months' rent.

I don't currently have a mortgage on the house, if I set up a lease option would that stop me from taking out a mortgage so I can pull out my forced equity from all my improvements to the property so I can roll it over to a down payment for another investment?

For example, every roofer will tell you to tear off not roll-over or to replace just because a roof is a certain age etc.

I thought this seemed like a pretty solid way to get some cashflow and roll it into eventually owning Airbnbs and or long term rentals.

If you keep the pro, then you should consider rolling the cost (or some of it) into the rent.

What clearly has changed since 2002 is that we have become a one party state and rolled out the welcome mat for half of the nation's homeless and even larger shares of other states' drug addicts, mentally ill and child molesters. 

She is asking to have the current wallpaper replaced as a couple of corners have rolled up.

I have all documents necessary to get this ball rolling.