if you need $200K for a project, no one is going to loan you $200K - you need a down payment, holding costs, and you need to know what you're doing or you'll just turn that $200K into $150K.good luck

A better option if you can swing it is to purchase with your own funds, gain access, then refi into a loan.

Pretty common, you can definitely use commission as down payment conventional loans and not have it count toward IPC as long as you're on the loan. 

Couple is divorcing, husband wants to keep the property; wants ex-wife's name off of property/loan. 

It's possible but going to be expensive and I would think they would want some collateral on the loan as well.

Name detection is via loan signatures.

Personally, I'd cash-out refinance into a 30 or 15 year loan.

Through a hard money lender, but I will take out a DSCR loan in March to refinance.

I am currently helping a VA buyer purchase a home with an assumable VA loan in Skye Canyon.

If you are willing to live in urban areas you may want to talk to a local bank in your market and see if they have any incentives or grant loans for certain areas.