PS Please pardon the typo in the title line - it can't be edited once posted.

Lease options work best when the mortgage payments are low enough to allow you to charge rent + a premium.

Maybe you sell the 30 acre parcel as is to someone who's going to turn it into a corn field (totally serious, farmland is, once again, command premium prices).

My mortgage broker is saying that the lender will require me to pay 15 months of insurance premium at the time of closing for escrow for my fourplex investment.

Loans trade for Premium (More than UPB), Par (100% UPB) and Discount (Less than UPB).

The bank has moved to protect the collateral that secures the loan they have made - that is why they will pay the property taxes, pay the insurance premium, cut grass, repair windows, change locks, etc.So, figuring out why it hasn't foreclosed is the next step; in TX, my understanding is that foreclosures happen quickly, so there's an underlying reason that this hasn't been to auction.

Edit: is this line part of my post the problem you saw "retaining 10-20% ARV equity" ignore the 10-20%, my lender doesn't base the possible cash-out on my purchase + rehab alone.

I must have missed the announcement...A BiggerPockets Guide: How to Rent Your House [Kindle Edition]

In commercial certain corps such as pharmacies will pay a premium for corners but then fast food generally will not.

apart from the very high flood insurance premiums we find (up here) that conventional financing is tough to get !!!