@Mark Watkins   well the 20k was a dead give away to me.. any lender that is doing deals will usually have a 75 to 100k minimum... check out the scottsmans guide there will be a list of REPUTABLE lenders there and you will see very few make loans for less than 100k... now in the mid west I know you need them lower than that.. but as a lender and I have been one... its just a loser to try to make little loans .. you can't charge enough to make the risk even close to worth it..so when I see these guys say they make loans at 20k to 20 million  RED FLAG... 

Surely there is SOMETHING you can do to install some kind of grass this year - even if it turns out dead and terrible looking.

Everyone get concierge service...check cashing, flat tires fixed, trip to and from a dentist, loan-a-tool, jump start a dead battery, etc. 

In my opinion, yes, it can be done, but you're looking into a bigger mess as far as the government is concerned.Lets preface this with I don't know exactly how this works either, but after a certain amount of people are involved you have to report as a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) and have to file extra forms related to your business and also after a certain threshold you also need to report members and their distributions to the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) so they know as well.Being young (as am I) you are going to run into a lot of dead ends trying to apply for a residential loan with a business name.  

Its dead money waiting for progress but its all you have at risk.  

A dead end.. yet a bit entertaining.Your help will be greatly appreciated.

The owner is dead.

The deal is not dead maybe.

You will get high rates, high occupancy during the summer, and it's dead quiet in the winter.Is your friend at the Elektra?

Plus if I can't get the funding the deal is dead anyway.