One solution I’ve seen is closing the purchase in cash, then securing the HELOC afterward, though this carries more risk.

Failure to clean up pet droppings willresult in a service call (Pooper Scooper) billed to the tenant.

You will need to work out a mutually-agreeable solution. 

You need the right solution for your day to day operations.Your need is to make the management side easy, so that you can analysis your accounting, business and management all with only one entry.

With a push to bring more manufacturing back to the U.S. and more employees returning to office work, there will be a greater need for mass transit solutions rather than building more roads lowering the quality of living if you want that SFH with a yard.

That doesn't mean you have to file bankruptcy, but you do need to know there are better solutions than Subject To when in foreclosure.If you sign a deed in lieu, that means you will no longer own the property and will probably never be able to buy it.

It was a long and expensive journey, but eventually, we won the court battle and were able to move them out.After they were gone, we cleaned up the house and decided to list it as-is instead of flipping it.

The current owner bought it for $30K and I know they had to clean up a lot of title work and started doing repairs. 

Understand, real estate may not be the solution you are looking for.

I'm all about finding problems to solutions and figuring out how to make something work rather than simply conceding that it cannot work.