The risks are:- non payment by buyer and must foreclose- lender calls the note dueThe answer to the 1st is to make sure there is a good down payment so dollar wise this does not harm seller.The answer tot he 2nd is to use a land trust and appear Garn St Germain compliant.Just my 2 centsAlan

See the chart from Fair Isaac Company (FICO) below: FICO Score Pct of Population Default Probability 800 or more 13.00% 1.00% 750-799 27.00% 1.00% 700-749 18.00% 4.40% 650-699 15.00% 8.90% 600-649 12.00% 15.80% 550-599 8.00% 22.50% 500-549 5.00% 28.40% Less than 499 2.00% 41.00% Source: Fair Isaac CompanyAccording to this chart, investors should use corresponding vacancy+tenant-nonperformance factors of approximately 5% for Class A rentals, 10% for Class B and 20% for Class C.To address Class C payment challenges, many industry "experts" are now selling programs to newbie investors about how Section 8 tenants are the cure.

Listen to his podcast and you will get a feel for the program. 

The benefit of using DSCR style loans is that they typically do not appear on personal credit reports (unless there is a default).

What I can say is your property 2 does not appear to be an investment property (it should be purchased for owner occupant) and that you should be able to do better. 

It will save you a lot of valuable time so you can concentrate on growing your investment portfolio instead of crunching numbers.This post originally appeared on the BiggerPockets blog.

OR does anyone have a good experience with a rental program?

But they appear to be suggesting that you're paying retail. 

Even as a seller focused or listing broker, providing investors with live mortgage rates, programs and accurate resources has proven essential to maximizing transactional incentive and client conversion throughout the years..Although I've never actually executed dual duties on any single transactions (and don't think most investors want to entrust that responsibility to a individual party - nor would I want it!)

I have tried to find potential syndicators by literally tracking down who bought apartments that I see clearly have new owners... but in each case, to date, the new owner appears to not be open to outside investors (and so far no local outfits), so that's not working out.