If not and you're weary of dealing with this business you can always inform him you will begin advertising for a new tenant (which, of course, means there will be showings of the unit) and once a qualified replacement is found, his lease can be terminated.Sometimes when a tenant realizes there will be folks tromping through their place the bathroom "odor" suddenly evaporates.While you should not have to suffer loss of rent over all of this, life is too short to keep dealing with this nonsense.

Of course, can't a renter  watch TV?

The latter will have higher interest rates whereas the former has a 2% interest at my local credit union. 

Some things to consider are: if minor maintenance is included, if they file the occupancy tax on the owners behalf, if they hire the cleaning service and if they "eat" the credit card fees or pass them onto the owner.

I have an excellent credit score.

Thank you Kevin for your response and I think this will be the best course of action.

If you qualify conventionally, any bank will use your income, credit and assets to get your loan completed.  

Hello All,I have been looking into these courses to broaden my horizons (I know residential) and was curious if anyone in the community has insight to the program and willing to share.https://ecornell.cornell.edu/certificates/real-estate/real-e...Thank you!

Something to note, if you pay cash for the house and later require access to those funds, utilizing a HELOC (Home Equity Line of Credit) allows you to retrieve that money.Secondly, the right approach for investing depends on several factors.

@Cliff Durrett  - thanks   1) family  2) friends  3) reitement account loan 4) personal loan from your bank 5) leverage a car  ( unlikely to obtain from a bank or credit union )  6) local bank / credit union