If you are considering this type of financing, I don’t think it’s the right RE-investing for a suitable return on your money.

With warm weather and longer days, visitors flock to the region to enjoy the many outdoor activities available, such as hiking, fishing, kayaking, and swimming.

There are a lot of fall visitors to Vermont to see the fall colors too.  

Even if they don't know the people directly, there are web sites that'll list the property for those credit tenants to view and determine suitability.

Here, I could not find any suitable duplexes and could not afford larger multis.

The Heights and Midtown also has a lot of visitors. 

Are there a lot of visitors? 

I don't want to waste my money to find out later that it is not suitable to my business - once i set one up, can i add or revise it later? 

@Laura TroianIf you can find a suitable tenant who would take a 6-8 month term lease, it would solve your heating through the winter problems and free the house to be placed on the market in the spring - around here that is the best time to list.

What surprised me was that the man is in the real estate business and should know about the importance of notification of long term unauthorized "visitors".