It’s a fully renovated, modern-styled, 2-story townhouse with 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and a basement in Baltimore County, where I live.

Here's the breakdown:Financing: We used a seller carry deal with 25% down ($100k), a 30-year term (balloon in 10 years), and a 4.68% interest rate.

And as mentioned above, if the lender you are speaking with doesn't know what that is...then you need to go to a different lender.  

I had to sell so I replaced the HVAC and a day later it was stolen by what neighbors described as the previous tenant.

With 30 years of experience in real estate and now owning a quadplex, duplex, and a condo STR, you’ve already built an impressive portfolio.

And a local resident is usually very helpful.

This statute section covers items on PMc's, and as detail here, an exclusionary clause to the statute which via that exclusionary clause it there in becomes an empowerment for the referenced actions being exempt from the prevailing statutes for that item.

Supposedly, the CS program has you find folks looking to get their deals funded and as the CS "broker" you get to charge the buyer a % which gets paid at closing.

Second, success often depends on creativity, persistence, and a willingness to negotiate.

Smoke detectors are two screws and a batteryScreen door could be tricky depends on if screen just needs repaired or replaced.