Other than for personal knowledge, there is no good reason to be ordering your own appraisals nowadays..  

Is this a new Covid policy change in response to many tenants who are not paying full rent nowadays?

It is easy to do nowadays if you know how to use DocuSign or any other signing service.

No double if you know how to promote the place on social media nowadays, you're likely to run it well.

I'd look at a couple of places...Gainesville due to proximity to the casinos where there is very little housing...and maybe Commerce where there is growing university.   

SchnapfEven properly decommissioned tanks aren’t allowed by most lenders nowadays..And you can’t “just take” some soil samples while the tank is in place...

What kind of flooring are most people going with nowadays?

Go to the local pony track or closest casino to his house and you will see him there with defeated eyes.I fell for the bs pitch on giving more money to get my original money back once as well, won't ever happen again!

Can't trust anything nowadays.

More than 2 hard inquiries ding you, but they usually "disappear" after 2 years.Most likely the HELOC is the one causing the biggest drop - in the past HELOC was counted in the same categories with mortgages, but nowadays it's reported as credit and counted in your credit utilization rate together with your all other credit cards.