So an investor buys the property, you pay them a down payment for the lease option then pay rent for a year and after a year you have option to buy it.What makes this challenging is the lease option payment would probably need to be around 20% of the purchase price but it sounds likeyou do not have it. maybe moving is just not in the cards.

I'm paying for what I'm getting right nowThat being said - I could pay slightly more for something where I know, or have a very good idea something is going to happen - such as road access, utility access, new developments of some sort etc Or less (probably wouldn't buy) if something bad is going to happen - railroad tracks, dump, Sec 8 housing built near by etc 

If you're purchasing a single family home you can use traditional financing like you probably did on your house or you can do a commercial loan.

Many investors learned a hard lesson when the STR market took a hit initially during COVID.Until the shared living space concept matures, it's probably premature to skip the above investment evolution.

Can try to reposition to Class B, but neighborhood may impede these efforts.Vacancy Est: Historically 10%, but 15-20% should be used to also cover tenant nonpayment, eviction costs & damages.Tenant Pool: majority will have FICO scores of 560-620 (approaching 22% probability of default), many blemishes, but should have no evictions in last 2 years.

And yes, you're probably more likely to run into an issue in Fort Worth than you would be in Dallas.

Furthermore if they are always paying they probably will stiff you in the end if they know they aren't going to get the deposit back. 

.- Maximize probability of successful private capital raise.- Maximize taxpayers’ profits on Treasury’s investment in the GSEs.Ackman’s key steps to ending conservatorship are:- Set appropriate capital requirements.- Limit government-granted benefits.- Develop market-based compensation and governance policies.- Clarify the nature of ongoing government backstop (implicit and/or explicit).When could this happen?

I signed a form “giving them the power” but I don’t remember if it was even notarized, probably just docusigned. 

The bottom line is probably 70 to 80% or more of folks that buy any kind of training never really implement..