We agreed, and then they informed us after the fact that the cost end up being $2,000.00 because it was "so dirty." 

Pensacola is a great market for investing and the number of properties available right now is up so there are actually some on market properties with potential. 

My biggest concern with house hacking is giving up my primary residence.

If you want please feel free to add me to your Network would love to be part of the team and I am always happy to help and offer advice or tips on my side of the finance part of things!

It drives me nuts seeing the lions share of blame being placed on weather in main stream media (talking as an aggregate whole not going to cherry pick individual ones of differing messaging) when I see a laundry list of obvious human caused contributing factors. 

You seem to know how many lenders we have "signed-up" on our platform.

Agree with others that you will probably need to lower the rent - suggest 5% every 2-4 weeks until activity picks up. 

Who did you end up using?

My advice would be to follow up with Vitaliy and pick his brain as much as he will allow.

Most of the newer ones use the same exact flapper on their entire line up and it's easy to change.