(An exception is if you own 5% of the company you work for)Agree, this is a great summary post on REPS with core concepts on how to qualify. .I think the complexity comes in when people have edge cases - it becomes difficult to write a simple short post that educates everyone.

It’s not difficult to buy them.  

It is true that it’s not difficult to do if you know what you’re doing, and you can make a lot of money.

Right now finding deals that cash flow well is definitely difficult and we haven't purchased a property in 2.5 years despite our best efforts.

Sure, you can get a conditional approval very easily, but satisfying all the conditions the lender and/or investor has required often can be difficult if not impossible.

It is very difficult to manage when you are not local, don't know the laws, have the infrastructure, and can't react quickly when necessary.

(about $20K in profits) I've developed and perfected a strategy to manage these tenants (and I'm a Hilton/Marriott hotel General Manager so its not difficult for me)The only thing(s) that are in our way from scaling quickly is;1) a consistent unlimited supply of tenants looking to rent bedrooms, 2) a partnership with a rental management company (we arbitrage 50% of our homes)3) I guess some capital but really only depending on how quickly we decide to scale.MyRoom is the name of the company, (lazzarapm.com) anyone have any thoughts, recommendations, suggestions on how to achieve this, FAST?

So if you get evicted, you will find it very difficult to ever rent a nice place in this city.  

You can look at a DSCR loan but depending on how you have everything structured that might be difficult. 1.)

It may make evictions of non-performing tenants difficult or impossible.