@Michael Carbonare The rent to own strategy has been good to our business model as a long term buy and hold investors. 

Strategy Selection – With your interest in STRs, multifamily, and fix & flips, consider focusing on one strategy first to build expertise before branching out.

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@Scott LorenceThe advantages to renting to college students are that they generally leave after a few years so you can do repairs or updates, you can raise rents on a regular schedule, they will pay a premium to be near campus, and if you get engineering students they tend to fix the small stuff on their own.

You can still get a 30 year fixed conventional DSCR loan for rental properties.

This house-hack will be a negative cash flow while I live in it, fix it up, etc. 

If not, you have to fix it by abatment or LBP hazard control methods.

Then once you've fixed the property up and at least have it listed for rent you could refinance into a DSCR loan.

If the deal is residential 1-4 units, I'd aim for 30-year fixed-rate debt. 

Biggest lesson would be to have refinanced when interest rates were low and locked in a fixed rate for longer terms without a balloon payment!