You must have had virtually no profit in it at all if fixing the HVAC prevents you from doing a live-in flip, which is a far bigger investment of yourselves than just a regular flip or even a rehab of a regular rental. 

I had metal t-posts cemented into the ground around the new unit, but this was not enough to prevent another theft that I've just learned has occurred. 

The way I understand it is that as long as you're residing in the primary residence, there isn't anything preventing you from also collecting rents.

If you have no personal or family reasons to prevent it, why not house hack to begin quickly, even if this means just renting out a room of a SFR?

If there is something unique about the property that prevents a conventional loan from working, such as two houses on one lot or if a condo association is step up in a way that prevents conventional loans from working.4.

In order to even be permitted to run credit reports, my PM company had to go through a physical site visit from a representative of the credit bureau to ensure we have physical (locking filing cabinets, etc), electronic (password protected computer lock screens, etc), and procedural (written policies) safeguards in place to prevent the release of SSNs and other personally identifiable information (PII).So the correct answer to your question is a hearty No, the PM cannot and should not share applicants' credit reports with you.Note: I have since followed up with the law firm that published the article linked above, and they acknowledged that some of this is still the subject of legal debate.

There are 5 cleaning ladies that are on rotation to prevent burn-out. 

Your typical self storage lease will have them acknowledge that they can't do illegal activity or keep illegal items, but obviously you can't 100% prevent that.

They are also terrible at preventing fraud and abuse.When people apply for assistance through local churches, those churches contact the Landlord or Property Manager.

If you can solve the problem of knowing exactly where the bed bug attached to my roommate and alert him when that happens so he can remove his clothing and prevent bed bugs from entering the property, then you just stumbled onto an 8 figure company.