The summary is this: The guest claimed to have a service animal to aid her medically.

If there was an end-to-end view of what a functioning BRRRR enterprise looks like, I could plan to build one for myself. 

It's happening again.360 Mortgage Group plans as much as $1 billion in “NINA” loansIt’s important to note that despite the loan carrying the “Agency” name, which would imply that one of the government-sponsored enterprises is backing the loan, neither Fannie Mae nor Freddie Mac is backing these loans.Initially, the loan will be available for non-owner-occupied investment properties only.https://www.housingwire.com/articles/48810-no-income-no-asset-mortgages-are-back-at-one-lender-at-least

I agree, those two things are so important to any success and I'm so glad that BP aids me in both!

Sounds like whatever band-aid job was done, wasn't done properly.

QuickBooks Enterprise for Property Accounting works great. 

I’m not keen on band aid fixing a basement, but there might be a cheaper option.

One of the biggest aids in our investing was our realtor's connections.  

You may have additional protections due to the fact that you occupy one of the units, so read your landlord/tenant laws carefully, and there should be a legal aid hotline that, while usually dealing with tenants' issues with landlord, may be able to guide you. 

Those in favour do so because they  drank the Kool-Aid believing from others it is necessary and are paying for the physiological security.