Hi Chrissy, You may run into the 6 months seasoning required with most lenders.

I would say go the owner occupant loan route to get into something for 3.5-5% down instead of 20-25% that you'd need with an investor loan, but those require you to live in the property for a year before you could rent it out.Airbnb could be appealing also since you'd already be furnishing the place for yourself, could just leave the furniture there after you'd move out.

If you ask the manager to justify a fee and he starts hemming and hawing, move on or require them to remove the fee.

They have very specific requirements of how much revenue they want to see on a monthly basis as well as the frequency of the deposits.

We also felt the relative size and scope required would lend itself to a good first flip.

Some things didn't change, such as the requirement that the property be on unplatted land, so that definitely restricts the number of eligible properties. 

I am also going to required annual increases in rent based on the CPI index, among a few other things.Does anyone have experience with this?

but, we do have a work around for this in the states we lend.For non conventional products it is up to the individual program requirements.  

Any insight or knowledge would be appreciated this way:  A mortgage and note do not, in fact CAN NOT legally prohibit the sale of the subject property; nor can that document REQUIRE the announcement of that sale.  

Typically, you just require that the property be vacant for closing.