They measure the loan on different things.  

It's a measuring tool or an efficiency tool to start research.

Read this book first - https://www.amazon.com/Every-Landlords-Property-Protection-Guide/dp/1413307000 - before getting into more complicated and expensive measures of protection.

While it may seem like overkill to some, these measures can provide peace of mind and safeguard your investment.

The second phase will introduce modest restrictions, with continued data analysis to inform further regulatory measures.

Still today, most every competitor of ours has blatantly or partially launched their services based on Carrot... but Carrot still crushes the competition in most every measureable performance indicator... because of my intentional focus to just outserve our clients.

Interesting that you can know there's deferred maintenance on every property in Peoria without seeing them in person.I'm doing well, thanks, there's no house of cards that's about to fall and I'm not gonna get into a, er, manhood-measuring contest about numbers of properties.Like I said, you do you.Hope you have a great day.

Rates are a measurement of risk for the lender and there are some people who cash out and stop paying the mortgage.

No accountability measures but a whole lot of self-promotion.

More units means more things could go wrong.So, while I agree with Greg, that if you are in growth mode and want to get to 100 or 200 or 1,000 units (although unit count is not the best measure of success) then more debt with longer amortization is going to help you get there faster.