Many variables seem to be the cause of this to include house price, property taxes, interest rates, etc.I really want to utilize my VA loan for MF properties & live in one portion and rent the others.

What is the cause of such low occupancy rates?

For example, not having on-site storage can cause a lot of logistical and financial issues.

I would recommend getting the tenant to admit that they had done something to cause the problem.

I'd be surprised if there was anything substantially more than this that took place, and I'd be shocked if it caused anything to change for 2025, only 2026 onwards (for major things that is).Which is exactly what I call guessing  ;) 

If you only plan on owning 2-4 properties, then there's really no harm in self-funding them unless you know a better, safer way to make more than the going interest rate on that money (most investment mortgages right now are about 7%, maybe effectively 5.5-6% after taxes depending on your brackets and tax structure).

First off they could close a sale and make a commission and secondly failing to do so could cause their license to be suspended or pay a fine. 3.

Like Duluth cause you saw a video on it.

Probably that may be causing confusion.

Communication good or bad goes along way to keeping investors from being upset to going ballistic on the internet and creating irreparable harm to the syndicators reputations.