Very commonly the resident pays a portion of the rent so your rent increase will affect their budget and their lives. 

Several factors indicate the company is not that concerned about efficiency or ease of customer process: the website, a process that seemed to focus on one issue at a time instead of all issues at once, and consistently poor communications and lack of common sense from the loan analyst we were assigned.It started off very well with the initial point of contact, Austin Lornson, who did a fine job of explaining the general refinancing process, responding quickly and thoroughly to our questions.

There's a specific forum for House Hacking.You'll want to spend some time reading through there as it's a common topic.

Quote from @Ed Daniels: Very common to overthink this investment.  

(If there is a PM, who will manage the PM and the oversight).Who will take care of the partnership return or forward the tax information if its a tenants in common property.Best of luck

This is more common in highly leveraged deals. 

But in terms of the upfront fee, this is actually common in a commercial loan.

It is common practice for mortgage companies to later sell the already funded loan to a 3rd party like a hedge fund or a bank after the fact.

If anything, have a small sign in front of the house that says who the builder is and phone number (that's common for contractors to do, and also so that neighbors feel they have some to call if there is dust blowing from the site or whatever), and then you may have people calling you asking about availability (people always want something more that they had to chase and can tell their friends the story of how they got the house). 

Several factors indicate the company is not that concerned about efficiency or ease of customer process: the website, a process that seemed to focus on one issue at a time instead of all issues at once, and consistently poor communications and lack of common sense from the loan analyst we were assigned.It started off very well with the initial point of contact, Austin Lornson, who did a fine job of explaining the general refinancing process, responding quickly and thoroughly to our questions.