Slow and steady wins the race mate.Too many guru's and marketing companies pumping leverage to rookies because they make more money, the more somebody buys.Being patient and using all cash to begin is always safer in the long run.Build the foundation of your portfolio with cash and make it strong.After a few years, look at using leverage for faster growth.And only after you have experienced the true income and expenses of your portfolio and not just paper figures.Cash is KingCashflow is QueenLeverage is the Peasant Just my opinion 🙏

It'd be a win/win.Dream customer would be like heiress Liesel Matthews parents back in 1996 needing a nice place to stay while she's killing it as Sara Crewe in WB's A Little Princess (of course she had Alfonso Cuaròn directing (*swoon* my hero!!!)).

Its a win-win for everyone. 2) NO, do not do a permanent rate buy-down unless you have to in order to qualify for the deal. 

This house isn't winning any architectural design awards on the outside-- I joke that it is having an identity crisis.  

My daughter has a couple of great roommates going on 4 years & it pays her 2.85% mortgage & they split the utilities, WIN WIN !!!

For these current tenants, I would just say try to focus on a creative win-win solution that allows them to move out ASAP without causing any more issues for you.

If I end up jumping in I hope I can replicate your wins! 

As long as you have your ducks in a row you will win.

If the agent/listing disclosed it needs work, selling as-is but that you likely wouldn’t win bid with an inspection contingency, then you decided not to have it inspected, that’s a different, hard lesson.

I love it when folks learn to adapt and create winning solutions.