Likely as the saying goes you can’t have your cake and eat it to.

In development, you can't have your cake (existing property) and eat it too.  

You want that fee to be icing for them and not the cake.

Now I have, as I am sure we all have, purchased programs that were a waste of money before but this one takes the cake. 

Right now, I recommend that you look at it from a simple long term play of just getting your own home, have someone help pay down the mortgage to build equity - and if the property value goes up, well, that would be icing on the cake. 

If it works for a LTR, then usually going MTR or STR is just icing on the cake (sometimes a lot of icing!).

There are plenty of posts of investors "wanting their cake and eat it too." 

We have a lot of former business credit bankers and underwriters on our team, so it is a piece of cake for us to run a client through our negotiations process and get large limits.

Icing on the cake. 

Prop 13 is the icing on the cake, I've seen more than a few >$1m homes with annual property tax bills below $2k.