Your advice about using durable yet affordable furniture makes a lot of sense for mid-term rentals.

Again, the BiggerPockets store has some books on this topic, or you can learn about it by watching podcasts, reading blogs, and interacting on the forum.

Directly across the street you have Panda Express, Popeyes and a pawn shop/jewelry store must I say anymore? 

The DU provides information on Credit, liabilities and income and it can be possible that one offer will be chosen over another because of a FICO store or income even though it gives an approval and that is a very thin line for discrimination. 

Ugly furniture and cell phone photos ... and I was grossing $3,000/mo.

.- McGowin Park developed a huge retail space in 2015 which consists of: 199,500- square-foot retail shopping center containing a future expansion area, five restaurant "pads" and 4.5 acres of outparcel development, and the west development consists of a 148,000-square-foot anchor store with an associated gas station, an 89,600-square-foot shopping center and 7.41 acres of outparcel area.

Once somebody gets over 300,000 to 500,000 dollars you would think it would get hard to live paycheck to paycheck , but I have seen people finance incredibly expensive furniture for their mortgaged incredibly expensive homes and the money just runs out at the end of the month . 

Trusting your insurance provider is like trusting corner store sushi.

But you do have to store it and move it. 

Tempur Sealy, the world's largest mattress supplier, is divesting 176 Mattress Firm and Sleep Outfitters stores to gain approval for its $4 billion acquisition of Mattress Firm.