What percentage of housing demand in and around Metro Atlanta is section 8, and is it worth marketing more to affordable housing?

Since you said the sales price is $180000 and loan around $165000 so Mom needs a down payment plus the costs.The seller may lose a portion of their entitlement, not knowing their situation, cannot speculate but the loan is small, so perhaps a percentage of the entitlement.The seller doesn't have to stay one year, seller can move and ask for exception, seller cannot rent the property in the first 12 months. 

True private money is going to cost 10-12% plus deal equity which often makes the true percentage 20-22% on your money vs alternative lending which will be around 12-14%.Here to chat if you want some help comping a deal and putting one together. 

---What vacancy/tenant nonperformance percentage did you use in your ROI projections?

The app also gives you a real time battery life percentage, so you can tell when they're in need of being changed out. 

They want to be a smaller percentage of the investment, so you need to get the $ from somewhere and many start with retail investors.

Or you could promise a certain interest rate then lower the rate by a percentage or two at closing.What can be done in todays market to underpromise and overdeliver?

It takes a lot of money to operate a rental as things break and wear out, tenant issues, unexpected crap that comes out of nowhere… in my experience it takes $300-500/month minimum in capex budget alone and a lot of people only budget $100 or less because they’re using a spreadsheet that recommends a percentage of 5-10% of rent and the rent is too low for that number to be high enough. 

In some municipalities rent works with the property, not the tenant, so that even if a tenant moves out, you can only raise it a certain percentage with the next tenant.

Is there an acceptable max percentage to increase rent?