I'm most interested in Single-Family or Multi-Family Homes with the intention of having Mid or Long-Term rentals (although I am not opposed to Short-Term either).

Offer to be the guy that restores the old family property to it's former glory and all....Still it'll be hard to not look greedy because you do want to make money after all.....main thing to me is being super PATIENT.

Legitimate lenders may charge a small application fee (around $250) to verify you’re serious, but if someone’s asking for thousands with no real intention of closing, that’s a huge red flag.On a more positive note, there are creative financing approaches out there.

For context its mainly retirement communities around 2 hours either way from Las Vegas and Phoenix.

If the money is not held according to local landlord tenant law and/or was was spent (either intentionally or unintentionally), that act would be treated as an exclusion no different than under any other insurance policy.

I like their portal, because I feel that I am able to have a good idea of the status in processing of my loans, but I would be intentional about the loan officer I work with. 

I mainly invested with them because Brandon Turner was running it. 

Id say the main question here to decide if there is a conflict of interest.....is the person saying buy rentals....are they buying rentals themselves?

The main house will be house hacked for the first year and will turn into a co-living.   

It's in on a Main St in an small town in NJ.