It's infuriating because this is a straightforward all interior renovation without expanding or changing the existing footprint of the single-family home.

+95% of agents only have experience dealing with owner-occupied transactions - which are mostly EMOTIONAL decision based.You can ID these types of agents easily by asking them:1) If they are RE investors themselves.

We're looking to eventually expand this analysis into other markets. 

Ive seen many properties with this issue and never had a problem or could be easily repaired

If you own your primary residence and have a mortgage that reports to credit, lenders can easily tell whether or not you have any late payments because it would show on the credit report.

This is from the official Allure installation instructions: "Do not install permanent cabinets, vanities, etc. over allure as this will prevent allure from expanding and contracting."

It would be worth exploring all options, and if you are willing to live in a duplex or one of those options, the rate for owner occupied financing isn't 8%, it is closer to 7%.Also, since the market is softer, you could easily ask for a seller credit to buy down the rate closer to the low 6s, and meet somewhere in the middle with a similar mortgage payment as a new build and get something that would be a really good house hack for a family with privacy, garage, etc and get the benefit of renting the other side or ADU.

They're an important clientele for short-term rentals so being easily accessible from the capital by road is a big plus.If you exclude Mexico as a Caribbean destination, the Dominican Republic is by far the number 1 tourism destination in the Caribbean and that's unlikely to change anytime soon.

While asspro works by reducing the target on your back (and by making it harder to collect if it gets to that), unless you structure the whole thing very well, and have your lawyer/trustee sign all your documents throughout all your transactions, from the beginning, you will leave a paper trail behind yourself, relatively easily identifiable if you become the target of an educated person. c.

You can still easily achieve rates in the low 7s depending on LTV for a DSCR cash out refi.