If you get resistance just tell them the bank will demand it to qualify a loan (which they will) so they may as well get it to you up front.

May as well use those boost points since they are there.Was I super happy about this new program - No not really.

Read the following article and hopefully it'll give you some guidance: https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/10850/85351-nothing-will-work-until-you-do-maya-angelou2) it sounds like you a ready have some foundation, but the best investors never stop learning.

You may a private lender for most of the purchase but you still have to renovate and pay monthly cost until you refinance. 

I guess I figured since I would be at the property anyway meeting with contractors and realtors, I may as well be doing something while there anyway, rather than sitting around in a dirty house waiting for someone to show up while things need to be fixed.

I may as well predict the lottery numbers while I am at it. 

However, they are in the minority and the purchase price of such a property could be so high that it wouldn't be very profitable as a short-term rental even at full occupancy.We've been investing in short-term rentals in the Riviera Maya (where properties are cheaper and the occupancy is higher) and I have been thinking at Puerto Vallarta as a second market in Mexico.

While there, may as well ask if they have anyone that specializes in these, the metaphor here being that if you need knee surgery then you don't need a general practitioner doctor or a cancer doctor or a brain surgery doctor, you need a doctor that's a joint surgeon.

Maya 

In the mean time I may as well talk to some resources for cash.