However, I buy multifamily apartments for cash flow, not for natural market appreciation. 

As an alternative you can lower the payoff amount to entice them to seek financing to pay you off.

Naturally, my first thought was to tackle a business plan in relstion to flipping and then revisit it and make revisions where necessary.

So naturally I’m very disappointed not to be able too use this anymore.I am curious as to what services everyone will be using to still adequately screen tenants without adding a lot of time and cost to the process?  

You’re going to seek out alternative financing and lending.

You’re going to seek out alternative financing and lending.

It's more about the expected nature of a chronic discounter and how it applies to the whole project when they cut the listing agent to a stump and offer garbage to a buyer's agent when they want to sell the property.

I am not familiar with your region and how the mini-split systems perform, but if the insulation is good and the units are not too big they should be a good alternative. 

Keep in mind there is not too much available this time either, so the lower demand meets also lower supply.We have a new 4 bed single family on the east side for $2,350 and had 5 showings / 2 applications this weekend, that's a fairly good outcome in this price range, which is naturally much slower than under $1,500.One of my mantras is that the house will pick the tenants - a nice house will attract nice tenants, a wired house will attract wired tenants.

Given the transitory nature of students, you are going to be turning units regularly.