There are non-government loans (we call them non-QM in the mortgage industry) that can lend to LLC's, etc. but then your loan isn't as good.  

Between my photo copies of government ID, lease where they initial and sign all over, and the signed application with all of their personal information which I verified through a background check, I think it may be difficult for them to succeed with this.I feel a tenant should always pay the credit card fees. 

Hello BP, I'm a new Multifamily Investor in San Antonio and I'm looking at properties in Government Hill and Denver Heights. 

Also make sure you research any local government / municipal STR restrictions.

Like so many topics in the building/housing space, there are two valid sides to all of these coins, and finding where equilibrium is between those sides is a very difficult job for our governing bodies.

To see for yourself, just go online to the clerk’s site, Official Records, look at any random deed transfer recording....the price is shown and the doc stamps $ amount charged is printed on the deed in the upper right hand corner....you do the math......it is $0.70/$100. 

I do not believe the government should be able to mandate a change to existing contracts.  

Are you researching these properties to find those with abnormally high eviction levels, involuntary liens, various government code violations or what?  

I am printing letters today to start mailing to homeowners of distressed properties.

for some reason REITs have never been a sexy asset class, older investors look at REITs as a weird-bond and wonder why own something with 4-5% dividend when they can own Investment Grade corporates at 5-6% or even recently US treasuries at 5%, and young investors don't even know what they are.yet they acquire class A real estate, the kind you and I can't due to price, the kind that has the best capital appreciation in great areas long term, and they have access to credit at lower rates than us, or they can just print shares and get new capital for free that way, to buy more great properties, They can pay for the best management, they don't ever pay brokerage fees either in or out (have everything in -house), and they generally have much lower risk as most of their portfolios are leveraged at only about 30-40% LTV, and we have zero personal liability when owning them as opposed to the litigation headaches we get with direct RE, and right now they collectively are on sale about 25-50% below their NAVs at lowest valuation since 2008, as opposed to SP500 at all time highs.