I met a new investor, with contracting experience, at a local real estate meet up and he is interested in doing a flip using a hard money loan, renting the property out to his girlfriend, then using a FHA loan to buy it so he can live in it.

just curious - is this something you want to do, and have experience in? 

I don't have a comprehensive experience  but I tried to find the least costly one for every step for me and applicants/tenants.

Feel free to shoot me a PM and i'd be happy to connect further to share experiences or insights!

We have tenants looking to buy a house, and we were considering selling them our rental with a lower interest rate than current market rates.Does anyone have experience doing this? 

Does anyone have first hand experience of this? 

I speak this from experience and would love to save you all the $ I have wasted in the past!

So the "story" of why you are buying a SFR rental but also renting yourself should be very clear in a Letter of Explanation.However, these cases can be looked at generally - do you have other investment experience - or is this first foray into real estate completely? 

Your commission split will be higher in favor of the broker, BUT it's a good place to experiment and have your training wheels before branching off onto other brokerages that give you a better split. 

Or will I go through with it and get some money and some experience which I can use later on in another deal?