I have brokers lining up some pre-approvals but wanted to see if anyone has had some local success with conventional financing or some type of rehab based loans. 

We found this off market in pre for-closure How did you finance this deal?

We require a copy of your ID, proof of funds, and lender pre-approval letter to proceed with working with our team.

If you close into a 30 year loan from the get go you will most likely pay a pre payment penalty of 3-5% so that strategy wouldn't make sense.

If you use the same investment pre and post-roth conversion, the growth would be the same.

There's more risk with buying out of state since you can't check on the property and you have to find a trusted team.I invest in the Bay Area (pre-2013) and did a renovation, was on site at least once a week.

Hey guys, 
I'm looking to build an ADU in the back of my primary residence in LA. I don't have any real life experience with building or developing, so excuse my lack of knowledge. 
Before I build of course, I want ...

So, you are not skipping anything.Further, using the same May 7th closing date you would see on your closing disclosure under pre-paid interest you are paying interest from the day of closing until May 30th. 

These threads within multiple threads make my eyes hurt lol...Yes but my properties were acquired pre-2013 so in a much different market. 

I would provide checkout instruction and checklist, offer a pre-move out inspection, and expect them out on the day that they indicated.