Throw the book away its useless.

The state doesn’t have rent control laws, but landlords are prohibited from collecting more than one month’s rent for security deposits.

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If we could prove out income I know getting money for the renovation with the property as security would be no issue, any suggestions? 

Goal is to create long sustaining growth and cash flow that I could eventually sell or use to eventually secure a retirement home and place of my choice! 

Also, there were times when the appraisal came back lower and the refinance did not make sense and he did not throw a tantrum and say we wasted his time, etc.

Given that the house is paid off but has $27K in back taxes, you could offer to cover those taxes upfront in exchange for favorable terms on the remaining balance—like low (or no) down payment, and small monthly payments.You could also negotiate for a subject-to deal where you take over the property subject to the taxes, while still securing control of the property for your BRRRR strategy.

In addition, I do want to get some type of temporary security camera for the property while doing some minor rehab fixes, Are there any suggestions for temporary security cameras?

This may or may not be helpful, but for the sake of throwing all the info on the table to keep this guy in jail, I thought I would chime back in. 

You mention market appreciation is good for a $100k home - throw away the last four years and what was the appreciation from 2012-2019 - that is what you should be looking at.I saw this with people in shenandoah va raving about how appreciation is awsome etc (during covid) - of course it was everywhere was appreciating, but now that we are back to a more normal economy -- I would not look at the past few years appreciation and look back to prior to see if it truly is an appreciating area.