This conversation pairs nicely with, "We'll also be popping by 4x a year for seasonal maintenance checkups" and any other best practice you want to incorporate.In the final analysis most landlords are not professional nor are they skilled. 

Conversely, there's not much I can do for a tenant with a really low deposit.

It found me, single one conversation negotiation with a retired NASA employee wanting to offload his assets and join a retirement community.

The goal is to buy in the path of progress, and when equity allows you can drop MI and possibly do a garage conversion to create another unit and additional income. 

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I'm a realtor here in Cleveland and I've had some conversations with lenders who are saying this is going to be really bad.

This has been a major conversation over there.  

Are you paying them debt until the point the conversion takes place.  

I already mentioned it took me 2 and a half years to get going, and it probably would have taken me even more time if I hadn’t had several honest conversations with Eryka.

If you're a lender in/around the DC area message me and I'd love to have a conversation with you!