Omg there's a bunch of testosterone floating around on this thread.

As to the lender accepting payment from the new owner and how it diminishes the lender's ability to enforce the due on sale clause: I'd expect it to be easier to do with a bank with a brick and mortar where a person can make a payment by going through the drive thru.

Once you've experienced the successful rental of your first house hack, this fear diminishes.

After perhaps the first 500-1,000 hours of studying real estate and posting to the forums, I think the diminishing marginal returns on the 1,001st hour begin to take effect.

Michael Quarles Interesting comment that you think the knowledge requirement has has diminished as compared to a couple of years ago.

Plus, your margin of error is diminished because you can proofread and change your offer letter before you print it out and send it off to owners.In the end result, all the seller really cares about is if you can help them. 

After time that cost percentage will diminish to 4-6%. 

This illustrates the negative effects of corrupting the integrity/security of a system, now my WSDL is of diminished utility and I have to have a passport.  

Lower Returns on Investment (ROI): With limited ability to raise rents, the potential for high returns diminishes, especially in markets with rising property prices or inflation.

True, if he bought 4 of them, leveraging it, his cash flow is diminished, with mortgages as high as 18%.By 1982, his mix use property was paid off as he had a $15K mortgage in 1963.