They are you best bet for flexible lending.

They have a newsletter full of content that you can customize with your contact info, and print off and distribute.Then, I would pick an area that you want to farm. start small, and add additional sections as money becomes available.If you are really eager, and ready to work for it, print off the most recent comps of your farm area (or the newsletter as mentioned above), and go walk the neighborhood. 

After paying in additional 10% in Principle.Mortgage will go down to 1290/month.I realize there is a negative cash flow to start, but im thinking the 15k in equity off the bat and highly recommended tenants making rent payments in the 1st month is worth it (no waiting a month or more to find a good tenant.)Main goal is buy and hold.

@Barak Levi Jacksonville seems to be a good bet.

----------------------Surely a flooded home qualifies as an emergency, also his lease may have additional details that may help.I'm more interested in why she wouldn't want him to enter....something shady must be going on!!!  

In addition to reading all the great information here, start reaching out to people and making time to meet with the frequent posters here.  

Additionally: whatever you do about this, try to stick to email (other written communication) that you can later go back to in case the tenant decides to claim that he was not fully reimbursed.(1) Ask the former owner for any Lease he had with this tenant (it sounds like you were this tenant's landlord for 6 days - I'd ask for this document during the purchase period.)  

It is my understanding that you will pay first/last but not an additional security on top of that unless you have a pet.

A lot of eyes are on the midwest these days so I thought I’d put an offer out there for all the BP folks around the country who have their eye on Cleveland, Ohio.I’ve personally placed a major bet on Cleveland as an upcoming city for long term buy-and-holds and I have plenty of reasons why.

What about the additional $100K you'll need to rebuild?