You can often wait and find a more qualified tenant and not violate any fair housing laws.

What I fear, is I am going to find out I have to offer some kind of service or something to qualify.

When you convert an investment property to your primary residence you only get to prorate the gain between “qualified use” (as your primary and tax free) and non qualified use (as investment and taxed).

I want to start with my first deal out of state, but I've been looking a lot of houses and neighborhoods but the ones I qualified with a conventional loan has to be livable, so I can't buy something that I can gain equity by fixing it up, so I can't meet at least the 1 % rule, max is 0.7% should I buy or what to do??

@David Beckley Unless it’s a qualified installment sale, or going into opportunity zones....do please share.Some guys have “ideas” that don’t really work.

Would it be reasonable to assume that a deal is worth pursuing with a residential real estate licensed broker, who is resident of SW FL for over 20 years and looking for cash investors to buy qualified multi-unit properties in Florida?

How do you qualify your vendor expertise? 

For example the 6 month versus the 5 year has been inverted for a month or two.Whether it means a recession is coming in the next 1-2 years I am not qualified to speak on that. 

Yes there is asset protection for assets in qualified plans in many cases.

Would've closed Oct. 20th. but first buyer didn't qualify somehow.