That is often overlooked and people will try to insure the rental home in their personal name. 

This often provides a high and relatively safe return for the lender and allows borrowers to quickly and easily obtain funding, while also having a say in the negotiation of the terms (points, interest, timeframe, etc).    

Promissory notes are basically loans that also have certain time frames and are often secured by collateral.

I always warn my buyers of the risks, but overall, I don't often recommend those certificates are required for sale.

It is a sellers market and while waiving the financing contingency may make your offer stronger than an equal offer with financing, it often does not give you leverage to offer less anymore. 

Although it might fly so long as one isn't audited...but it also often misses out a significant portion that an engineer based study would find.

I know you said you listen to the podcasts often so like they say.

Often, because of due on sale, the bank isn't told of the deal.

1) maintenance2) book keeping3) property management tasksWhen we talk of growing, I often see stories like "We went from 0 to 5,327 units in one year!!!!"

For instance, many are buying lists from listsource, etc and often times is the same list as hundreds of other investors are buying.