But it is very much applicable to single family rental and residential units simply by getting bridge financing and a post transfer cash out refi.

Nope......i heard of it on a podcast though.i actually have studied banking and economics for the last year and a half.

These are professionals with additional training and a stricter code of ethics.

There are a lot of possibilities and a lot of ways to make money in RE.  

I'm both an investor who has done fix and flips and a mortgage lender.

For $10K and a lower rate I'd be willing to consider delaying...but only if I knew that lender two was solid on closing in a relatively short timeframe.

As more people placed more properties in STR inventory, and as more municipalities taxed and regulated the industry, the profitability of the overall industry has reverted to a much more aligned (lower) risk adjusted return.  

The place I’m looking at has all employees and a wonderful couple who has owned it for about 30 years.

If the agent is their own broker and a sole practitioner then you need someone else to decipher the agency relationships that may or may not exist.

We have a parking lot, a dumpster, a few picnic tables, a small playground, a small dipping pool, and a "dog park," which is really just a fenced in grassy area.