Many of these owners cannot afford to pay for their mortgage and pay for a temporary place to live.

It may be a bit costly but an idea that comes to mind is you paying for a PODs so they may load up their household goods and you flip the bill for temporary lodging at a hotel. 

This is because private money lenders base their lending criteria heavily on the property itself and less on your personal financial picture.Most HML is for temporary financing so that you can acquire the property.

Sometimes it’s better to hire someone who isn’t emotionally involved and has experience, like a property manager. 

Those people focus on the numbers, and if the numbers work, the deal is likely to get done.When you’re dealing with the owner of a single-family property, it’s often a person who is emotionally attached to the property, and for good reason: you are negotiating on the single-biggest tangible asset they have in their life.Stitching Together the FinancingEven though multi-family properties are investments, it’s sometimes challenging to get conventional bank financing for them.

I would keep their emotional outburst out of it and stick to your lease + protocols - if that means the tenant pays, then so be it.

I really just wanted to ask on here to be sure I wasn’t being emotional about it and just trying to justify a bad idea.

I do not want to waste time or get emotionally attached to something until I get some more info.

Any crash has been temporary, always.

@Jonathan StoneThank you I still plan to take time to make this move, saving up a bit more and making sure that I plan my exit strategy and run realistic numbers with no emotional attachments.