As long as they are working real jobs and have a bank account, you can make them pay.

Here's a link to their rural search tool - https://www.consumerfinance.go....As long as you have reasonably close comps and the CFPB says it's not rural you have a good chance of getting an appraiser to avoid checking the box for rural to appease DSCR lenders. 

As long as the tenant receives it and signs a copy, you should be good.Certified Mail works because the Courts accept this as delivered even if the tenant never picks it up.

The DSCR compares the rental income to the property’s debt, and as long as the property covers the loan payments, you can often qualify without needing tax returns or traditional income verification.

For me, I tell clients as long as you are within a 30 minute drive of either Pigeon Forge or Gatlinburg you'll likely see more consistent success.

I would continue house hacking as long as you can get a loan for it.

Most lenders cap out at 75% and I know of a few that can go to 80 as long as the scenario checks a few boxes, but the majority of DSCR cash-outs stop at 75%.

Sometimes you buy low, sometimes you buy high.But as long as you stay in the market, you benefit from the tendency of the market to go up over time.People think of buying a house as this one time thing, but it’s actually more likely that you will buy, sell, refinance a few times over the course of 30 to 60 years.

Since you've lived in the apartment since 2007, you likely won’t be hit with any capital gains taxes as long as your profit is under the IRS exclusion limit ($250k for single filers or $500k for married couples).

With that being said, as long as your return is fairly straight forward, you should be okay but if you have multiple rentals and other things going on, always worth at least a chat with someone.