You’ll want to handle this carefully to stay within the law.

I'm sure you have a great read on your local market but I'd recommend refraining from pretending to be an expert on a market you clearly know little about.Good luck!

No one will care more about your success then you.

I have read the book on long distance investing and still am not too confident to get started.

Thanks for reading really appreciate any advice!

Some gurus tell practicioners of sub-to to hide transaction from the lender by saying the lender doesn't care as long as the payments are being made.

The house is currently under management so I’d think they’d take care of getting top market rent but I think we all know that management companies can be hit or miss.

Be careful.

However, I read some bad reviews about them. 10% service fee from landlord, plus 8% from tenants.

@Collin Hays I completely agree with your theme of building a local banking relationship, which should help someone build their real estate portfolio, but I have a couple of questions.When I read "conforming" and "non-conforming" loans, I think of the loans being underwritten as consumer mortgages.