But for many REOs, as @Jon Holdman states, the seller may want you to use the title company they are already working with since they have already paid for the title work that has been done.One issue you may encounter is that the title company the REO asset manager has chosen most likely will not allow same day back to back closings using transactional funding.

Incorrect drainage is the issue for many older homes having foundation cracks as the added pore water pressure from the rain creates an uplift force and can cause differential forces on the foundation (a foundation's enemy is not always more force but it can be less force to retain the foundation as well).Just know the wall wont crack on its own.

Put them at market, if they leave find a new tenant before they move out and reap the benefits of full market and a tenant you have chosen yourself.The purpose of being in business is to make money.

For me, in Oklahoma, we do not experience high appreciation rates and for that reason I have chosen to leave the single family rental game in my past and begin to focus exclusively on multi family deals.

What sort of list have you chosen to mail to?

Get that degree and go to your chosen field and then do this on the side.

I have chosen to list my STR on Airbnb.

I know I still have lot of research to do before I can talk intelligently about any of the un-conventional options, so I haven't chosen a particular path I want to go down at this point.The main reason I'm asking is because there are some turn of the century, mixed use, properties I'm looking at with retail space below and apartments above.

I've chosen not to borrow against my free and clears but may change my mind if opportunities started popping up. 

Provide more financial details and you may find our advice is entirely different than your chosen path.