I'm trying not to float the mortgage at all and rehab in 3 - 6 weeks.

The purpose of a PM is to **not** work on the rentals but use your time for other things, whether it’s finding and buying more rentals, working some other job, smoking weed all day, surfing, or whatever else floats your boat.

Catch my drift?

Is this a path to still look into, or have Short Sales drifted off into the Real Estate graveyard?

The city has been floating the idea of rent control in order for the “locals” to be able to stay in the area.

Even if we have to float the mortgage for a month or two, and extra $200-300 would pay itself off very quick

I don’t believe in lifetime cashflow from a single rental (not that you only buy and hold one rental but that that one rental can have significant equity growth with cashflow to float you, then you sell and do it again or trade up).

Just some options that I’ve floated around. 

That's right, believe it or not, there's 13 trillion dollars of negative yielding sovereign debt (and recently European corporate debt), floating around the world wide financial system, formerly the bedrock of most funds portfolios.  

Looks high end and costs less then ceramic and hardwood and is more durable then laminate.Item pictured is a floating floor application that locks together, requires no underlayment and goes over floors that are fairly uneven.