I'm not able to apply for a regular home equity loan since I am disabled and have a fixed income.

This is the reason the best policy is to give regular/annual rent increase which would avoid your present landlord fears.Just send the notice in the email with the amount and date effective.You would be farther ahead if you did not fear the responsibilities of being a landlord and simply raise the rent to market or get a new tenant.

Regular financing is still an option but if any of you have some thoughts on what terms make sense, I'd love to hear them.

I can only guess this is untrue because of the regular "buy one of our properties" marketing emails I continued to receive, even after having purchased a property. 8.

It's good you are doing drive-bys, but spreadsheet analysis for house hacking won't get you very far until you see what you have to manage, if the utilities are separated, and you see the tenant next door's upkeep irl.

I also wrote a review on TVC's facebook page and was reached out to, by a few of their people including Scott Myers, head of sales, who I have been in regular contact with.

You can force anyone to pay online though.I have more problems from my non-S8 tenants.Screen S8 tenants as you would a regular prospect.

You can get a free account with TenantCloud or other management software, enter your property once, click a button, and it will be published out to multiple sites at once.Knowing the market requires regular research.

I also have those contacts  for the upkeep of those properties.

This is how the bank operates on a regular basis.