Buy in a neighborhood you want to live in even if the rent does not cover all of your payment it will still be a lot cheaper then paying rent and then when you move out let someone else pay your entire mortgage. 

I actually built a tool to help me better analyze Furnished Finder listing data, so if you're into MTRs and you're interested in checking that out, let me know!

They remove switchplates and outlet covers.

When I go to Destin for outlet shopping I feel like I've been transported to Orlando.

Some larger broker outlets will give the option to have the loan processed and underwritten with them but this isn't the norm (UWM comes to mind as a big lender who now gives the broker this option of taking care of all of the processing or certain aspects of the processing which they call "processor assist" - this is fairly unique as far as I'm aware however).There are so many little variables to every situation but generally speaking, if an MLO is skipping over the spot where his/her license hangs and taking a deal somewhere direct, there wouldn't be a compliant way to pay the MLO.  

This is done in conjunction with the 3 day pay or quit and if he isn’t out let him know the eviction is going to be filed same day.

Smoke detectors, GFCI outlets, handrails, working heat and hot water, etc.

For example, I only work with Landlords/Investors and social media is a useless outlet for connecting with those people.

Sometimes a deal can be slightly negative because you're living there as a house hack now that is a different story because you might "know," that when you move out it will be positive or positive after you raise rents and move out (lets say its a fourplex 4 flat for Chicago folks, and 4plex for us west coasters).In this case, it might be lucrative because in this example you control the "move/out," and conversion from negative cashflow to a positive cashflow scenario so the future potential is definitive versus some hope and prayer that you will someday cashflow (smoking hopeium so to speak).I've also seen some buy negatively cashflow properties here in Seattle PNW (pacific northwest) areas even after they move out (its still negatively cashflowing), but the aim was to build ADU or accessory dewelling units in the back and that eventual exit strategy would yield positive cashflow eventually.

They ran a garden hose for the washer and plugged the dryer into the stove's 220 outlet.