This gives you 2 units per container.This gives you a great alternative to building a permanent structure.

The next purchase will likely be another house hack so that I can permanently be out of the Pocono cabin.

While guidance is still a bit unclear and more research has to be done I think this is a huge opportunity for real estate investors to have permanent tax savings (along with other benefits) - even better than a 1031 exchange!

We aren’t flipping the house, it will become our permanent residence, but we will refinance to pay back the $100K loan. 

You are likely paying closing costs on the acquisition, again on loan number one at 7% and then again on loan number two for your permanent financing.

Our buy and hold model is to buy homes in Columbus Ohio with private capital, stabilize the asset, and then refinance to put more permanent financing in place. 

Short term financing for flip or permanent financing for rental?

I'd nail an eviction notice to your friend's front door so fast her head would spin, and do everything in my power to make absolutely sure that an eviction ended up recorded permanently in Prince George's County books, so that any search in the future would expose it.And then your friend would never be able to sign a lease in the USA to live in any apartment where national record checks are run on possible tenants.

Our family is not going to permanently going to relocate here, but we will need to frequent the area enough that it's beginning to make sense to purchase a 2nd home.  

More likely route would be to use a hard money lender to acquire and rehab the house and then refinance into permanent financing once completed and rented.