You pay a bit more, but you get exactly what you want and don't have to worry about maintenance for a while which is obviously a savings.I live in the Woodlands, so considering the location of my home and rental property, I'd ideally like to build this in the area of The Woodlands, Conroe, Spring, Tomball, Klein, or Cypress. 

It seems more your fault for choosing the "lying" contractors from the tenants point of view, if you ask them to pay up, I'm sure they would.

Quote from @Jake Handler: For anyone that has been a buyer or seller of a seller finance property, what method of payment and tracking did you use for buyer to pay seller monthly? 

@Dillon Clark-don't pay extra down on your mortgage-don't use a HELOC-save up as much as you can-hope this helps

Primary home is a little easier but for FHA and other programs it requires 12 months title seasoning.There is something called delayed financing that if you purchase a piece of land and pay for the home "All Cash" without a mortgage you can get up to 80% LTC.

Which is somewhat frustrating if a flipper would pay 5-10k for it at that price.

As part of the deal, they are paying me to take some of the backyard.

I think that this niche pays off a little better than SFH's.

He will pay sales commission but get his BHA back and have lived for rent free. 

Your tenants can only continue paying similar rents if they remain employed at similar wages.