Also, I’m curious—have you found that lenders’ confidence grows after seeing how smoothly things run, or are there certain aspects of the deal where they tend to focus their due diligence?

I did a quick search on zillow and found this duplex in san diego.

Transparency, I thought I would never be able to afford Alexandria either.We showed up to Old Town Alexandria and started renting. 4 months later we found an affordable house in Woodbridge we could get into for a year with low down, then rent it, in the mean time we recoup the capital from our other 2 properties to go buy again after that 12 months.

What strategies have you found most effective for securing financing in a competitive market?

Even though I am up around $700k, I would have passed on this purchase and found different candidate property if I knew it would cause an issue. 

I found this but I can't understand what the other costs are https://www.narpm.org/members/resources/rent-vs-sell-calculator/SFH current value: $441,000Bought for (2020 new construction): $362,000 (primary residence till Nov 2023)Mortgage balance: $218,000Interest rate: 2.375% for 15-year loan (12 years left)Annual Tax, insurance and HOA: $7,000Current rent: $2950Appreciation: Reached $441K in March 2022 and has stagnated since.

It's the outskirts of your MSA's that 1% can we found in Texas.

They found solid tenants and stabilized the property.

We've been in communication about getting everything repaired until they found out the contractor said it would take approximately 4 to 6 weeks to fix the spots of drywall that have been removed and to repaint, etc, and now their responses to my texts are less and less.

Thank you I have Propstream but have found that their data is stale, specifically for last sales and properties listed as in foreclosure that no longer are.