No matter which variation I can't get it to accept it. 

The joy of house hacking is that there are so many different variations, and most all of them will work. 

of the 100 attendees, the first 99 answered the same "no", but with variations:1 - "I tried it, and it didn't work"2 - "My brother (sister, in-law, friend, etc..." tried it and it didn't work.3 - " I didn't get it"4 - and, my favorite...."

You won't find anything really off the shelf with a window due to the size variation. 

There will be a variation of wholesale contracts.

I follow a minor variation of what was suggested by above by @Paul Sandhu in that I don't do deposits and I charge a combined cleaning and damage waiver for all guests.  

@Stephanie BeardBianca won't talk because she is a guy😊 There is nothing new here, a variation of Nigerian scam.

They should however in my opinion record a deed of trust on the property or some variation there of showing that they have a priority lien on the property.

I then started thinking after seeing so many variations of lenders foreclosing, which ones may be easier to deal with.In my search I found Ocwen (that I hear nothing but bad news about in BP forum), regular banks like Bank of Mellon, Wells Fargo, Deutsche Bank, and others that are are more local to my area.All of the lis pendens I found I know are not all short sales but because they are in the foreclosure process, I'm wondering how to approach the owner or bank after looking at this list of properties.It doesn't seem to matter about whether it's a short sale or already at the 'almost-end' of the foreclosure process (when the bank gets the property) that it takes a long time because of so much red tape processing.

Like the Vanguard paradox,  dyed in the wool index folks who also offer some active funds, you see some variation here both among investors and across markets, even some contrasting views...And, as mentioned above, part of the allure in RE is profiting by your own hand, inefficient markets, and higher returns....And I may be deranged, but I find it fun and engaging  and you get all sorts of challenges, good and bad (where all my index funds are pretty boring to look at even when they grow, but boring in a good way...)