Way to pivot and stay flexible with the market. 

With Covid-19 everything has become more complicated, including with tenants, and being flexible may be the best approach unfortunately, due to the pandemic.

As for location and price of this future deal, I am flexible based on the merits of the deal, although preferably I would want this deal to be within a 50 mile radius of Enterprise, AL and under $1million listing price.Here is a question to kick off this discussion: What are the advantages and disadvantages you have encountered of investing in real estate while also serving active duty? 

Will sellers become more flexible?

I do favor the Homestyle just because of the extra flexibility it provides vs. the 203K.

We follow the same policy and usually work out a flexible arrangement, because some rent is better then no rent these days (even though we collected close to 100% for April). 

Would it make sense to structure this through a LLC for more protection and flexibility with moving money between us all?

Low personal & business overhead = maximum flexibility and security.Long term plans don’t need to be scrapped or maybe even changed.

The sale or non sale of the property will not cause a significant tax liability and so this ideally would give your mom the most flexibility and options.

They can typically offer more options and flexibility as they can shop the loan around.