Another layer of flooring can provide some additional R-value and draft reduction in these older homes.

I would not recommend any sort of reduction in principle in exchange for rent. 

There are great opportunities available to investors with the presumptive reduction in interest rates to come further in the year.

The property has been on the market for 40 + days now and we just made a price reduction. 

There are great opportunities available to investors with the presumptive reduction in interest rates to come further in the year.

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There are great opportunities available to investors with the presumptive reduction in interest rates to come further in the year.

During the time you live in your Homesteaded home for the extra Property Tax reduction in Florida, you find another fixer-upper to Rent.

In this scenario, I personally would take the 25% or 30% down offer that's $25k less, than the 3.5% down FHA offer that's $25k more, because the gal putting 30% down can handle an appraisal that comes in short (eg, I as a lender might even be able to keep her down payment the same, and  just call it a 75% or 80% LTV loan even though she is putting 30% down), but the 3.5% FHA guy is going to ask me for a $50k price reduction, and meanwhile the 30% down gal has found another house already so I can't go back to her at this point. 

This would have been in my favor, as it would have accelerated the reduction of the principal, saving me an estimated $30,000 over the life of the loan.