If it is not covered in the offer the, in terms of payment size, I believe the owner has to disclose a portion of the payment on his taxes as interest.

Since the blunt instrument of the securities laws cannot play favorites for real estate this makes most offerings of any size intractable using this exemptionQuality sponsors are still using item 1 above.  

What size loan are you looking for?

First, it can be done.Second, you'd probably be better off picking a fair sized town in the beginning, say over 250,000 population.

You should determine what size house, number of bedrooms etc. before you go looking and ONLY THOSE PROPERTIES that meet your criteria should be considered.

Trevor Kropp I agree with Russell Brazil Comparable approach is usually used at this size.

I think it's like $20-40k depending on the size.

If the cabinets are standard sizes you should have no issues finding doors locally or from the Internet.

In this case, do people typically list the ad with the base rent (so that it's competitive with other similar sized units in the market) and put the full rent amount with utilities included in the ad description?

Make sure it is one that is similar in size, location, bedrooms, etc.