If your project qualifies for EPP (Express Permit Program), then you don’t have to secure permits in the traditional way.

Any feed back is welcome 

Our local towns and rental assistance programs really appreciate those that try to work with their tenants which has helped me several times through easier permitting processes.

And perhaps they realized that they couldn't staff permitting and enforcement for the program. 

.- After closing, you can do some of the work yourself to save money, but the program doesn't allow you to pay yourself.You will want to buy a Class B property, maybe Class C+, in an area that seems to be improving.

They used that period of unemployment to skip paying student loans and then try to get some kind of program/hardship deferral or something aka "gaming the system".

After graduating in 2015, we moved to Oahu, where she completed a one-year AEGD program.

But the programs you mentioned are designed for what you are after.

Confirm what the no point option would look like in terms of rate/payment as you would want to refinance out of this program eventually and into a conforming product. 2.

We started looking at coaching programs and some of these things just seem ridiculous at 20-40 grand, and some seem more like life coaching programs as opposed to real estate programs. we don't want to syndicate we really would just like to find someone that we can bounce deals / ideas off of and have them assist in underwriting and giving us a better sense of security that we are doing the right thing.