Very little new construction as well, so if you're looking for buy2rent properties with/without rehab, you could do pretty well b/c our inventory of HGTV-ish rentals is pretty low. 

Zillow states the following on their annual report, "If Real Estate, Rental and Mortgage Professionals, Home Builders or Other Advertisers Reduce or End Their Advertising Spending With Us or if We Are Unable to Effectively Manage Advertising Inventory or Pricing, Our Business Would Be Harmed."

There are also 3% down conventional financing loans for single family homes, 3.5% FHA loans and 5% conventional loans.

Or just low-down-payment conventionals over and over?

@Eric Calabrese typically with an investment property, a conventional lender is going to want 25% down.

One of the beauties of this method is for the exiting owner not having the reporting all of their income in the following year instead of the life of the loan and it usually allows him to close quicker than a conventional loan, like a bank. 

Any hard money lender or any conventional commercial lender will require personal guarantees. 

This is kind of new to me because my first multi was financed privately, and I was already living in the property when I refinanced to a conventional mortgage.

She could do a sale the conventional in a way, do a "subject to" or an "option to lease the place sale. 

Is there a way to borrow money against the properties(not interest only or equity loans, but an actual convention loan) to purchase more properties?