One week they may bend over backwards to write you the loan and the next week they won't return your calls.Many small regionals will loan on rehab projects too.

Adam, I understand why you can't or won't acknowledge the basis of my opinion, that doing the deal with the intent to assign it back to the seller is nothing more than a side step claiming an equity interest to circumvent the license requirements, but's that's OK.I don't see this as getting a buyer to bend over too far because of it, maybe the seller spending much more than he might have had if he had just listed the property conventionally (that depends on how greedy the investor is).

I had to bend the metal rod part inside at a good angle where it doesn't make contact with the top lid.

Plus moving totally sucks.My brother spends $2400/mo to rent a house in Bend, OR. 

My husband and I live in Bend.

I wont forget how amazed one of the agents who was showing me around Atlanta was when I introduced him to Waze a few years ago, which forecast  a stopped car around the bend - and sure enough there it was :)I land up needing to call my US bank on a landline more often than I ever need to call my Iocal bank - (in fact come to think of it I never call my local bank) The solution is to find a cell package that includes foreign calls in the base price- and then you don't think twice when you need to call or for how long.

I own 13 units here in Chicago with zero pets, and I own 20 units in South Bend with zero pets.

Since my strategy involves looking to be an owner-occupant, I'm willing to bend the investment rules a little bit and get creative with my strategy.

About the same time our best friends bought a vacation house in Bend.

They are extremely pro tenant and have a unwritten policy to not evict.As a result I have been forced to deal with tenant issues in ways that will often tend to bend the rules to near breaking point.