The most obvious is that you will be able to offset your mortgage with renting out a few rooms.

The house is owned outright with no mortgage.  

Hello,We would like to offer a homeowner a reverse mortgage and lifetime use of the home. 

Anyone pursuing this strategy for downpayment funds on a more traditional mortgage or an in-house mortgage product.

I could probably do a 3-5% down payment for a property here but the mortgage payment would still be higher than I want to pay as the loan size would be bigger because I’d be buying a $500-600K+ house. 

I have done my research online and it doesn't seem like the strongest market (population is stagnant, crime rate is not the best, job industry isn't very strong) but I know personal accounts are important as well. 

I had planned to open both custodial accounts and Roth IRA for them, then pay them through online payment from our business account to their custodial accounts, then transfer the money into their Roth IRA accounts.

Quote from @Cédric Le May: Hello everyone, just started my journey to invest in rental properties but I am working full time so for now, I am just reading articles/forums, watching videos online and trying to learn as much as I can before investing.

Conventional mortgage.

This came from my team and I negotiated the subto terms because she was motivated to sell, but had a mortgage higher than my cash price.