Equivalent to traditional financing or hard money rates?

If the amount is small, there are ways to work that (message me).From the bank's perspective, generally, cash and hard money should be equivalent assuming you plan to waive financing contingency.Each bank is different, but they have procedures, bureaucracy, etc that would cause a delay in responding to offers.  

From a construction perspective, I would recommend a Hardiplank siding or its equivalent (fiber cement, etc.) for tenant situations if you are going with traditional siding.

Firstly, because thee SHF index only track properties that are financed by a mortgage so they don't represent the whole market (SHF is the Fannie Mae / Freddie Mac equivalent of Mexico).As you know, Mexico has two distinct real estate market:A.

., any idea on a US equivalent?  

My wife racked up nearly doctor-level debt going to pharmacy school, worked as a pharmacist for a few years, and we decided it wasn't worth the 120-130 hour combined work week every single week just so we could pay the equivalent of my entire pretty decent salary in taxes.

You can either hike the rent and offer "free power" to the tenant or become the equivalent of the utility and bill the tenant monthly.

Congratulations on your purchase.I just entered into a somewhat similar situation myself a couple weeks ago when I purchased a duplex and found that one of the tenants in the downstairs unit (which needs moderate rehab and who had supposedly been evicted) was still living in the unit.My approach was first to talk with him on the phone (less intimate/emotional than an in-person meeting) and offered him the equivalent of ~80% of a month's rent to vacate the property.

Google your [county name] Parcel Viewer or the equivalent of that in your area.

I determined it to be one of the rare instances regarding real estate where I would prefer to rent than own.In that situation, we could probably expect to rent a house out for the same amount each week that one might otherwise get per month if a typical 12-month lease (on an equivalent house, or a house that costs the same to purchase and rehab).