Most rentals with higher perceived risk can be offset by requiring an excess security deposit and/or a third-party guarantor for the lease, and/or prepayment of rent. 

In the meantime the repairs are being paid by the HOA (to repair the section of pipe only that leaked) and the dry out, which has depleted the HOA reserves.  

The plan is to house hack and rent to friends so they cover my mortgage while banking that excess cash flow to get started on another property after a year or two of living in the first property.

On the other hand, that extra "dry powder" in hand would come in handy so likely higher reward too.

Travis Sperr Dan Mackin I am thinking maybe put as much work into it with as little cost meaning I would have to do most of it myself, bleed the home warranty dry as much as possible, try to sell it in 1 to 2 years, hoping and praying that the market continues to go up in the mean time.

Finally my own single-family residence (closing March 31st)Coin-op/dry cleaning business (no idea what I’m doing here)Now it is time to 10X my goals, cause it does work!

Even if there were some type of fee -that seems pretty excessive for what I think is supposed to be public information!    

Lifecos tend to have a pricing advantage for loans with fixed-rate terms in excess of 10 years, and can offer the ability for borrowers to lock in the interest rate at the time of application.

If I'm looking to rely on conventional bank loans, banks in Cayman consider any properties in excess of 2 units (triplex or higher) to be 'commercial' for the purposes of lending.

The ONLY things I had to do was patch/paint a small nail hold (done as quickly as the mud dried) and re-hang a towel bar.