Casinos tend to be very self-sufficient since people go there to gamble, drink, and spend the night.

Single family investment occupancy loans have a min 15% down payment per the Conventional guidelines (some lenders and banks may require 20% or 25%), and investment occupancy rates still tend to be under 5% for most scenarios so if your situation does not fit the second home box, the investment loan may not be too much of a stretch. 

As I get older I tend to try it before saying 'no thanks'.

An additional possibly more important factor besides interest rate (which tends to be higher for an investment property) is call risk for the mortgage in the event of a market downturn. 

The warm belt states experiencing high growth from baby boomers retiring and migrating out of the cold belt states have plenty of retail tenants small and large with expansion plans ready to go in those spaces.Typical time in most warm belt states to re-tenant and get rent coming in to dark STNL could be anywhere from 3 months to 1 year depending on box size, location, mom and pop versus regional and national tenants who tend to move slower and be more methodical.We are not moving to a society where people sit at the computer all week long and stay in a house and drop ship 50 packages by drones.

At that point, my thinking was that the home would be a great rental as  inventory in the area tends to be very limited.Short version of the situation is that the subdivision's HOA allows for only single family owner occupants. 

And remember, things tend only to get more expensive over time. 

If you do an assignment you run the risk of getting both the agent and the seller angry if your wholesale fee is “too high” and angry people tend to cause trouble and file lawsuits etc.

It’s also free to use, and let’s me block partial payments and enforce late fees (although I tend to waive them...).

Windsor Locks, East Windsor, Stafford Springs, Ellington, and Manchester are where I tend to see more opportunities.