Nicholas,The one piece of advice I would give is refinance the Condo before you start renting it out. 

Unless you wait for the next tech/ICO bubble, during which you could sell anything.  

All though I am inactive but one can pop on NMLS and find me  :)  And like I said I have been paid off by Cogo itself so i know they do pull some loans through the knot hole..

And this is a biggee wading through the fake lenders or the Joker brokers that tell you what you want to hear  but cant get the deals funded and you lose the deal and a lot of money.3. with actual PML  private people  usually have very limited funds so cant scale with them.. they can have a life event and just stop doing loans all together..

It’s all about catching their eye and making them click.

So yes, you can have solid concrete walls, it's still going to burn down.I have read that worst case up to 80 million Americans will relocate in the next three decades.

I will pay the money if I can do 1 or 2 deals in the next 4 months.

I've seen this and it's the blind leading the blind.

Once you have a PM put it on market for rent your friend is more then welcome to go through the process with them.

That is all I said and we scheduled a meeting for the next day to come into his office.