You said she's been paying the taxes every year, therefore; the tax bill must be in her name is that correct?

I am finally at the point where I am looking to purchase my first investment property but I am running into a minor obstacle in that path.

This was the only time I had ever seen this - and when I asked the owner about it he told me that a previous tenant (who wasn’t paying rent during the pandemic) had turned her apartment into a laundry mat by allowing her neighbors to wash and dry their clothes in her apartment if they paid her! 

Not sure if there is anything inherently wrong with you trying to do this from an ethics standpoint, so I'm not speaking to that side of it.)

Get creative and find solutions to your obstacles because there will always be obstacles.

The going advice and what Avery Carl actually promotes in her STR book of buying a vacation home and then airbnbing it is being cracked down on by Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac.

Anything "new age" is inherently designed to capture non motivated leads..., why?

Allow me to point out some of the challenges inherent in that structure. 

I think when it comes to investing, this is one of the biggest obstacles.

Hi Adam... great position to be in!  Here's