I live in Jacksonville FL and Just bought my first Duplex in Ashtabula OH.I have a licensed Real Estate Agent, Licensed Property Manager and two Lenders (conventional and Hard).To be honest this is to be my retirement.

Looking ahead, once you secure a tenant, perhaps this is something that should be explored to make the next lease up easier.Also, @Caria Mitchell raised an interesting point in saying: We are experiencing a shortage of qualified applicants, I’ve noticed non-conventional applicants vs qualified applicants that don’t have a voucher or some form of subsidy. 

So, this type of auction usually offers similar protections in the process as a conventional sale. 4.

@Nick Belsky thank you Nick, I would love to speak about non conventional avenues.

Because based on those answers, you can just get a conventional loan. 

If that country is part of the Hague Convention, a local official can handle the signing and attach an Apostille authenticating the document(s).

I believe after the holidays the other unit will go quickly.What is the rule to refi into conventional loan?

It took 6 months of market research (you won't reinvent the wheel), 2 months to build spreadsheets (analysis paralyze), 6-7 house tours (leverage a local RE agent), and 30 days to close with a conventional loan. 

Digitize physical receipts for easy storage and use a consistent naming convention for easy sorting - 2024.03.25 Home Depot.- Maintain proper records, such as contracts, settlement statements, and promissory notes.- Additionally, you can track income and expenses consistently using software or spreadsheets.If you track everything, you could show a loss and use that to offset other earned income (such as a W2) which will net you a bigger refund.

The one thing you need to know is that buying the next deal (home/SFR/Townhome etc.) will stall you from buying anything on FHA/VA (gov backed) for 2 years and conventional for 4 years.