Id keep looking if it was not an approved short sale ( even an approved short sale takes a very very long time and theres no guarantee that you will even close on the house after months of waiting). q1)There are plenty of non traditional lenders that could offer you construction financing if the numbers make sense but it will cost you with points and a higher rate.

I know property managers in every state who use non-refundable application fees and it is the standard for every class of property and applicant.

They can also be more forgiving on condos (warrantable versus non) at times.

Simply put the risk of a non-renewal costs more.

Everyone thinks they can paint but there's a big difference between a professional paint job and a non-professional one (the latter usually actually damages the property instead of improving it). 

I do not believe I am RentRedi's target consumer as I have more needs than others and that has been true for other business relationships I tried to build in my time, but I hate when things have to end on sour notes and the fact that it took publicly criticizing the service to get attention is more than disappointing on RentRedi's part as a service business.

Turns out the theory was right, but the decline has been even steeper.You might be able to predict whether a future market will be better or worse than the current one, but predicting how much worse or better is nearly impossible.And don't even get me started on how sponsors could be manipulating purchase cap rate, whether intentionally or unintentionally, by reporting pro-forma caps, non tax-adjusted NOI, and so on. 

Even if the sponsor lacking knowledge and experience can raise capital through syndication, their life will become a living nightmare of lawsuits, hostile social media posts, public ridicule, accusations, legal threats.  

Id say 100% of my evictions are "no money back, get out now, see you in court, get my judgement, place it on public record."

I have seen some properties on MLS that I contact my realtor and they may know right away the reason it isn't selling from showing it previously, or they can review the realtor comments that aren't viewable by the public on MLS.Other potential reasons I have seen properties listed on MLS for a long time. 1) Some investors may not be comfortable inheriting existing tenants.2) It may be it is a class C neighborhood. 3) Structural issues.