@Laura Au we've never had any real success with Facebook Marketplace, just a waste of time.Depending on the Placement Plan our clients choose, we can advertise their rental on at least 20 sites.Assuming you've got good pics and a jazzy ad, then look at how much exposure the property is getting.After that it's time vs rent amount, also what the property is vs improvements to make it more appealing.

Then when I perform a good % of the work that we got paid full price for in the loan that's backed by asset being acquired. 

I put in the request to refi the loan at $500k, meaning for an LTV of 80% I need the appraisal to come in at $625k.

At that point I'd just be banking on the loan paydown and hoping for appreciation. 

conventional investment loan

If anyone has any leads or contacts on lenders that specialize in land loans or FHA construction loans that would be great!

Hopefully things will improve by the time you're ready to come this way.   

Get perm loan, cash flow.

However, we have a long-term plan to accumulate more than 10 properties and want to be strategic in the way we structure which one of us is on each of our loans now so that we can max out at 20 Fannie/Freddie loans in our individual names. 

According to the broker, the current loan is assumable (the rate is 3.35% or so), but he isn't sure how that works.