there is a judgement my name would be on record - for a longtime - even though this was a business dealing and not a personal deal.In my case, I own my properties in my name and self-manage my properties with a Single member LLC.,  and I am thinking of using the LLC name as the "Landlord".

You have to remain competitive when starting out because your goal is to grow your business.

@Cynthia Gomez - we may be able to use your flip experience, depending upon the extent of your rehabs and how long ago they were.Also, credit, liquidity, land entitlements are all going to be very important.

PLUS expenses (maintenance = 10%, repairs = 10%, management = 12%), PLUS the business loan = around $393. 

Besides a Hard Money Loan or HELOC, you could try and reach out for a personal/business line of credit?

Fast forward two decades to California and Oregon and outside of my growing RE business and portfolio, my day to day interactions with mortgage guidelines and underwriters were limited.

There aren't high-interest money market accounts for businesses and most, if not all, high-yield money markets are for personal accounts.

Hopefully, through all this mess, I have a partner we can do continued business with.

It will also depend somewhat on the price of the house and the method they use for determining the payout.

Any investors in Memphis have recommendations on small local banks for business checking accounts?