May just be a one off experience but that was mine.  

@Gabriella Swan, with your management experience already in place, house hacking seems like a perfect entry into real estate.

They have little to no experience!

Quote from @Burke Atkerson: With over a decade of real estate investing experience and over 100 flips, I now provide private money & hard money loans.

This is a FREE service provided by the bank, and we have used this account for about 15 years or so. 

It's not free government money being given to careless, loafing, dead end residents.

Feel free to reach out if you have any specific questions, as an investor or a lender happy to share any advice I can!

They can sell tax free.

I dept free minus these mortgages.  

My experiences were a couple of years ago and I was originally told the appraisal had been assigned and the rate would be $780 but then later I was told that appraiser was cancelled and they'd found someone else who it was assigned it for $935.