Send them a letter with the financial records of your paid rent. 

It sound like you need to pay more attention to the paper work, and is the husband of the PM license and bonded if so you need that info for your records.

You have 5 year's worth of records, or should.

Because of this he won't be able to give me a normal record of employment with salary on it. 

Now if my tenant has a proven record of paying by check with no problems, of course I don't call to verify the funds. 

Most of the checks were purchased for amounts just under the $3,000 recordation threshold6.

That one police report speaks volumes of what might have happened in the past, and I bet something recorded in his past would reflect this.2) The way the wife is punching all the right buttons with her fake legalese and filing just the right paperwork/complaints with the city says this isn't her first rodeo. 

Another option  you can try is to find some properties in that area, and check the tax records to see if they are owned by absentee owners.

It has certainly worked for a few of our agents who state they have made sales to customers who watched live or who saw their recorded home tour after a friend told them about it.Suggestions (its all about the HAVES, not the HAVE NOTS):1  have a plan! 

You are still on the hook for making the payments and technically the bank could call a 'due on sale' clause but this is done all the time with LLC, Trusts, etcTo get to your original question....whatever way you can get enough cash for the purchase and rehab for as cheap as you can...thats the answers :) If you can get a HELOC on your primary home and use those teaser rates to pull out cash, buy/rehab/rent then refi into conventional loan then go for it.Note that commercial/portfolio loans are definitely available but the terms are not as appealing as conventional and sometimes they want to see more of a track record with rentals.