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Issues keep coming up and the students asked MF Capital to help with the $50k extra the lender is requiring.

What is as important is that you require the insurance to be issued with you as the landlord as "additionally insured." 

Your main issues will be eggress, as usual in a basement.

as a result I switched to a new company, and I will have to adjust it again to a landlord policy that comes with a slightly higher price tag when I move out. 

https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/51-tax-legal-issues-con...

Since the original loan remains in the seller’s name, you may need a nominee interest allocation to deduct mortgage interest, as the Form 1098 will likely be issued to the seller.

That will be an issue if you change it to try and make it contingent on financing.

U can check out  ivyridgeestatescanby dot com for my 90 home project in Oregon that I did with my oregon bank and then my website for pictures of homes we built in Charleston SC which is the only market I tagged HML ( lima one) and only one time the rest were done with Ameris bank or Service first bank that is local in the market. its all about the three C's  Character Collateral and capacity..

Quote from @Celli Mowery: Hi Jamesinteresting message -I know I’ve seen your name often on the Bluegrass Investors GroupI have spent the last 5 years investing in London and while some of the concerns you mentioned did exist when we started I’m finding we haven’t had issues with tradesmen coming from Lexington & Richmond for us in recent years.