All the best on your real esta ventures!

(most lender fees are around $1500-2500 plus cost of appraisal $400-650 including rent survey that will normally be required on an investment property), don't be fooled by "no cost" offers, any lender can offer this by increasing the rate to cover the closing costs, so, when shopping get both a no-cost est as well as a standard cost estimate and compare the cost to the payment savings and how long it take to re-coup the difference between the options, (ie.

@Esta Ryder 100% agree. 

But here is an article from September 2015 which basically seems to suggest that those tactics are gimmicks and that the due-on-sale is still valid (http://johntreed.com/blogs/john-t-reed-s-real-esta...).This leaves me a little curious what my correct entity can/should be.  

Quote from @Esta Ryder: Congrats!

Because I focus on helping new investors avoid being scammed, I probably shouldn't worry about this too much, but I could be wrong so here's what I found...http://www.biggerpockets.com/rei/florida-real-esta...Charles Knighton II, MSREThe REI [email protected]

Quote from @Esta Ryder: I would just have a mowing company mow and take care of the dog poop. 

I am not sure if I should finance a small part of it and save cash for future real estae investments or just pay cash.  

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Hi Esta,As a short sale agent, I can't see the deal being accepted the way you describe it unless it was just to help the listing agent establish a pre-approved price point.