Welcome to the community and be ready for a huge amount of information at your finger tips.

You can also assess a dollar amount that you value the cost of these requests to be, and ask for these as a discount from the purchase price or a concession to you for closing costs. 

In the end, it may be the same amount of money or more, but it will just have to be structured differently as you navigate the shifting market.Northwest Valley would be a good option. 

Hard money will lend to you on a purchase of a home with a rehab escrow amount (not sure what a rehab credit is).

You can do an exchange for less than the full amount, but you will owe taxes on the boot.

.- Do you have 200-250k cash, or is that what you can get with your loan amount?

You can be proud of what you have achieved in a short amount of time, this is really impressive!

And large hedgefunds also to the same, they sell a large amount of homes in a group to another hedgefund.

I'm lucky to have a motivated client/investor that wants to work with me, and I feel a tremendous amount of responsibility to take care of that trust and investment.

As a former house hacker myself, I'd suggest you try not to get too close (in terms of friendship) with your tenants - the tenant/landlord relationship can make it tricky to become friends.Do you have a price range or down payment amount that you're targeting?