These terms are based on what my company does and will vary from lender to lender.Best of Luck!

This amount will vary. 

LTC/LTV restrictions: "Loan-to-cost" and "Loan-to-value" restrictions will vary by lender, but lenders are generally within 5-10% of each other for a given product type.

Your local area will vary from ours who are giving opinions as to what opportunites are best for you.  

I understand rates and points will vary.

I try to give free advice when ever I can but now it is so annoying and frustrating I come to the forum and within seconds I just log out.All this does is scaring the actual value providing people off of Biggerpockets... and all you have left is people that only ask (take) and never give.As for my take on how to post..Maybe click on a button "New Post"Then a drop down menu appears with a selection of categories, Wholesaling, Marketing, Advice on tenants, (ohh and have an "all others" section in case the person doesn't know where to post or cant find a category) etc. etc. and have the question posted strategically in steps.

So for wherever your looking rates will vary greatly.

My old PM used to be 10 days my older PM company was purchased and the new company is more like the 20th which just sounds ridiculous.I think the 10th is the most typical, but it varies.

I have a list of contacts that have been referred to me through my network at several different brokerages of varying size and structure.

Advantages are you can generally afford one house more easily than a multi, easier to finance, generally more sought-after and whole categories of issues are non-existent (ie noise of upstairs neighbor complaints).