You will have to be confident in your ability to resell the place for them to accept a contingency, however, or else it is not worth it to them to tie the house as pending, when they could be marketing it for sale to another buyer who is buying it directly. 

Lock the thermostat so tenants do not have ability to change temp settings as well.

What I am looking for is the ability to review (hopefully in Excel) the prices, square footage, number of bedrooms, etc.  

Though the VA loan does limit your ability to flip homes or even conduct the BRRRR Strategy.  

It makes more sense to buy it myself and flip it but I don't have that kind of cash reserves or the ability to get a loan yet.

I have cash for the down payment, and I would enjoy the easy cash flow, but what should I expect for refi-ability if the appraisal value and rents don't change over the next 6 or 12 months?

Currently, I'm invested as an individual.After reading about the ability to deduct business expenses before your income is taxed, it got me thinking about whether or not I should be forming an entity to invest through.

So appreciation could/would come along with the ability to raise rents (regardless of what SFRs are doing in the area).    

You may want to restructure your LLC to have them as severely minority partners with no signing ability and then close the loans with the citizen.  

Due to the ability to offer anything from conventional on down to sub-prime loans, and some commercial I was able to help fund deals for REIs.