As with every loan process, there are terms and steps the foreigner needs to follow, such as the loan application, which includes pre-qualification and property evaluation.

It will be highly dependent on the LTVs, but 2nd's on investment properties get sketchy. 

It also depends if your tenants have good credit they care about.

There sure are fast track approaches to this but really depends on strategy. 

Mortgage lenders will qualify you for a higher purchase amount for multis than they would on a single, because they will count the rent you will be making on the other units as additional qualifying income for your loan application.

Everyone's favorite answer in real estate---"it depends".That being said, you have to start somewhere to figure that out.

Actually the last time I opened it it automatically forwarded me to the new web page and until that happened I hadn't realized that was what had happened.   

It depends on what municipality you are in here in the Tampa area.

Additionally, I expect applicants to follow instructions in the advertisement and application, to make and keep appointments, to show up on time for appointments, dress and behave appropriately at appointments, and in general demonstrate throughout the process that they are someone that is easy and pleasant to do business with.

Most PM software allows late fees to be charged.Ours allows us to absorb the cost of tenants paying electronically thru the software - it usually wants to charge tenants, but we want them to pay electronically.We manually charge tenants a Processing Fee for mailing in their rent, a slightly lower Processing Fee for depositing to our bank.Your success will depend on the Class of your tenants.