Alternatively, you can find a single family residence with a mother-in-law suite.

They just rolled out a new program geared towards smaller management companies as opposed to big apartment complexes...We’re just getting going with it but we’re going to give it a try on lower end units as an alternative we can offer to residents.

This is not attractive - especially at a high 3.00% (pushing 4.00%) rate with no IO.95% of the time, this client goes for agency financing - but given the nature of this small loan portfolio - I don't think agencies are the right puzzle piece here. 

@Caleb Heimsoth the business is in Intellectual Property for a system to convert natural gas and carbon biproducts into nano-materials such as graphene.

As demand decreases and supply increases, we naturally see a decline in price BUT the graphs to follow show a steady demand for housing still and I believe that once people are able to get back to work and start borrowing again, we will see a fast recovery.With our phase-one/soft open coming up in only two days, I feel optimistic that we have seen the bottom of this economic slowdown and that we are soon to be on our way back up. 

Im not here to get into politics but wanted to get people's opinions and possible alternative solutions for the following matter.Background: Tenants lived in my property for almost a full year.

@Brian Henderson In order to invest in alternative assets like real estate within your retirement vehicles, they will need to be self-directed.

We also are in a weird position where we need more of a “permanent” primary residence because we have lots of heavy equipment due to the nature of my husbands business.

Eventually they realized that although highly practical, it was also highly confusing (and boring) to have both a 1st St. and a 1st Ave, a 2nd St. and a 2nd Ave, etc, that all intersect each other, so they switched all the avenues to nature-related names (mostly trees, birds and flowers but also some scientists and wealthy people's names peppered in like Carnegie, Curie and Tesla).

Now consider thissending 1000 mailers.100 people see the mailers and you get 40 people interested and 10 respond immediately.Since you didn't harass them the other 30 interested simply needed more time and eventually 15 of them will naturally get back in touch with you at a later point.