To save money, management raised the wind and hail insurance deductible from 5 to 10 percent.

Any time you use a HELOC, you only want to use 50 percent of the available equity or less so if you can do that over time carefully, it will work.

Businesses, even good ones, have some bad years during their lifetime. 

I offered 20% down, amortization for 30y, 7 percent interest and balloon out in 36 months.

You can save 10-12 percent right there.

Why are they selling if it's achieving one-percent rule? 

How it typically works, you would have to come up with 20 percent.

A PM of worth at let's say yr7, has done hundred upon hundreds of listings, and dealt with a range of properties and tenant situations most transactional agents will never experience in their entire life time.

Budgeting: Many landlords use the 50 percent rule, which means that 50 percent of your rental income should go to covering fixed and variable expenses, other than the mortgage.4.

The money wasn't secured by a beat up investment property that could go south, it was secured by his personal home that had gone up in value a zillion percent since purchase.