If she wanted an extra 30 days to move, you should have charged her rent AND kept a large hold back at closing with escalating amounts if she wasn't out in 30 days (ie you get an extra $500 from the hold back for every day after 30 days that she's not out).

I'm not sure if you plan to rent out the entire house or do a rent-by-the-room but you should charge as much money as you can so that you can keep the extra cash. 

In some cases, it may even generate positive cash flow, allowing you to save or invest the extra income.Build Wealth: Over time, the rental income from the basement apartment can contribute to your overall wealth-building strategy.

To most realtors, a good deal is one that they think can be bought at market value...investors can't afford to buy at market value usually.

The only way you could get to 3 quality STRs with that $80,000 is if you use the BRRRR method and execute it absolutely perfectly. and get all of your capital back + some extra to cover furnishing on every deal.

Hell, the Fed employs 100+ researchers and 400 PHD economists.They are usually wrong about both: where inflation will be, and what their own interest rates (Fed Funds rate) will be.

For example, if you get a good tenant in there with a medium/long term lease - you can take that straight to the bank to readjust your current note or take out some extra monies. 

I use someone off UpWork to run Skips – usually 1.50 per lead and have about a 60% success rate and easy format which is the big thing for me compared to other services I tried I was spending too much time trying to format for the skips or after and was just not worth it.

Fast' is usually not good.

Banks and CU have something called "High Cost" rules which means a mortgage under $75K generally is not large enough to include or finance their hard costs plus fee's.Some DSCR lenders offer a $75K minimum after down payment but rates are usually above 9.75% even with good credit and carry a 2-3 year prepayment penalty.