One option is you can use a DSCR loan and pull out 75% of the appraised value, you get to retain the asset and you should be able to cash-flow a couple of hundred bucks a month. 

What asset category would you be securing your loan with? 

Texas DOJ is actively investing this...so maybe your one loan may never even get picked up by them - by why risk it?

30 year loan How did you add value to the deal?

I wrote in the final Move Out Condition Report all the same areas, and at the end stated “$550 is deducted from $XXXX security deposit for cleaning of the living room/dining, bathroom, 2 bedrooms, and garage.

VA loan!

@Martin Kim many of our clients invest in private funds that loan to fix and flippers as an example. 

You will receive the security deposit in Checking but then transfer it to Savings.

full doc loan.  1 point and 7.475%. 

My wife and I bought our first house 4 years ago using the VA loan and I’d specifically like to learn how to finance a rental property using little or no money of my own.