Marketing and Customer Retention: What targeted marketing strategies have you used to attract and retain customers, and how do you measure their success?

Some lenders allow you to lock up a portion this way and still retain the difference as available credit.Is this an investment property or owner occ?

So you are either incapable of retaining information provided to you or you're here on a public forum blatantly lying.

Your observation is very sharp.

Could I loan some of the deposit and retain equity in the home for when they eventually sell or buy out the rest of the equity?  

I have a full time job that pays around 170k excluding stock options (which I would like to retain as a separate investment for now but I am open to use that for real estate if required).

You cannot win.Let me start first by observing that you didn't tell us what your financial criteria are.

Marketing and Customer Retention: What targeted marketing strategies have you used to attract and retain customers, and how do you measure their success?

I also want to emphasize how important it is to avoid stress, few stories related to real estate:a) my personal observation, it's 100 times better to have lower (but high) good w2 job than highest paying job with three times more stress than lower paying one, this is my personal take.

Now, I don't know what your lease says but for hold over tenants you are now allowed to retain their full security deposit and charge double rent.