If anyone has experience with taking over a mortgage, I’d appreciate your insight. 

I´m really experience in Maintenance Coordination, so I would like to start offering our services to PM´s and HOA´s 2.

The experience/knowledge of being an agent will help you so much.  

.), I'd recommend that the residential units fully cash flow the loan as my experience is that mixed use properties are tougher to finance as most lenders tend to prefer one or the other and something in the middle gets more difficult.For example, and granted I don't know anything about the area/neighborhood, I would expect this property (https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/111-NW-Har...) to be easier to finance than the mixed-use property you mentioned. 

Do people have experience doing so and have they been successful?

Just by having those two traits they are in the top 25%, based on my experience. 

By adopting the house-hacking method—living in one unit while renting out the others—we plan for the tenants to cover the mortgage and gain valuable property management experience.

Hello,My wife and I recently found a property that fits all of the things we are looking for, perfect location, price, rooms, etc. except for one problem: The previous owner was a smoker :( Does anyone have experience buying/renting out/living in a home previously owned by smokers?

It would depend on my entire experience with them.

Anyway, I greatly appreciate you taking the time to share from your vast wealth of experience.