You're essentially doing the same type of strategy except you're not putting your precious primary home at risk.

Exceptional Risk Management - Knowing how to structure deals to protect investors first, even at your own expense.3.

Everything about RentRedi seems great except for the lack of a web portal and the ACH charges. 

Neal manages to advertise exceptional returns and quietly ignores the risks.

The cons as i see it include loosing the 2 of 5 year cap gain exception, typically not an ideal rental because the emphasis at purchase was buying a good home for your family and not a rental with optimal return (my ex-home consistently has the lowest cash flow for equity in my RE portfolio), not disconnected enough from the property causes addition angst on damage and may result in over improvement.  

***Only exception is if an owner has plan & funds to reposition Class D to Class C or higher.https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/776/topics/960183-what-they-dont-tell-you-about-cheap-rental-properties?

Satin for most walls except for Kitchen and baths.

At the higher PV, you have $5k more in PV and equity).Your CF is around $20k/year, which sounds great, except when you introduce the equity into the discussion. 

Just read under Occupancy: https://www.benefits.va.gov/WARMS/docs/admin26/handbook/Chap...All the VA says is that you must intend to occupy the property within 60 days, and there are even exceptions to that.

There isn't much I can add here except for the local expertise of the Boise area and our sister company property management team get these inquires often from tenants - so we have seen many ways how not to inquire about it and a few good ways haha.