Their only product line left is farm/ranch.

It's not uncommon for buyers using FHA products to face rejected offers or the need to significantly sweeten deals to compete with those favoring conventional loans.

In other words, the right mortgage products, lender or program helps to make deals work.

They can learn how to do physical tasks like assembling a product by trying it a billion times inside a simulation until they have mastered it.

For this product most lenders will go off of the purchase price plus your rehab cost for a conventional loan.

There are some connectivity issues with it, but overall a good product.

And the above examples I don't think are good analogies - renting a crane and using it for other productive work is not the same thing as renting something and just pocketing the middle man fee.

There tons of old duplexes that need renovating, and vacancy rates for a nice product are very very low like 1-3%.

I urge my fellow lenders to utilize the power of google before they try and put borrowers into less advantageous products like DSCR loans. 

There are some products out there that will go to 80 CLTV but pricing will be much better at 75%.