Do you want the seller to pay closing costs?

I've completed my primary home rehab, ADU build, and have a tenant in place. 

The Reality is stuff costs money.

Also, I would also not cross-collateralize the houses if a lender would even do a portfolio loan.On your second question about multifamily, I would not jump to multifamily until you have experienced the common management problems with single-family as the expenses scale with the size of the property as well as the cost of mistakes.I would consider getting Home Equity Lines of Credit (HELOC) on each property.

If no mention was made of any type of special cleaner in the lease - that seems like an error on your part and would be a cost that you would have to bear.if you are charging the renter how old the units are makes a difference.

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They could have easily cost me the entire deal and they seemed ambivalent.

I forget the seller's story, but essentially a purchase offer would have been ~$70-75K with a $30-40K rehab IIRC.

He’s been working on a rehab, he did a little bit of the work and then just stopped doing the work then started getting hard to reach.

In other words, sufficient capital for the cash purchase of a property (plus rehab) and eventually refinancing the completed project to a long term loan.