In my opinion one still needs to understand tax law to effectively use the program. 

I’m curious—what creative financing solutions have you found effective in the current market?

This project highlighted our effective renovation and marketing strategies, yielding a solid return on investment in a competitive market.

One I was able to get a commercial loan and combined 15% seller financing with 80% mortgage, for an effective 5% down.One quick note, the comment of use hard money for the downpayment and then conventional financing for the rest - this won't work. 

Usually when you are shopping around for attorneys while also asking if anyone has used legal zoom, that individual is looking for the most cost effective solution.

Any delay or failure in the performance by Landlord hereunder shall be excused if and to the extent caused by the occurrence of any event that is beyond Landlord's control, such as fires/ floods, earthquakes, wars, sabotage, terrorism, vandalism, governmental acts, injunctions, or labor strikes, acts of God and any other occurrences that are unavoidable or unpreventable despite reasonable efforts to prevent, avoid, delay, or mitigate the effects thereof."

My neighbors on the first floor where I live, got close to 4 feet of flooding.How did the storm effect your local portfolio?

However, there has been an adverse effect in the Average Days on Market (DOM) for 2+ family residential properties.

HOWEVER, for most investment property cash out programs you will be capped at 75% loan to value (the delayed financing piece does  not effect this loan to value max).

As one house is paid off, start paying off the next one, and it will have a snowball effect.