Take the money saved and pay into a separate account each month until you have a downpayment for the next one. 

You should never pay upfront before any transaction. 

I’d like to figure out how he does that so I can just do it myselfThey are probably running a script built into the browser (Chorme likely), it could be done using a site similar to this site > https://simplescraper.io/, i haven't tried it, i rather just pay for it.

She pays modest pet fee per month.

Look into a hard money loan so you can get the rehab budget covered, and make sure the rehab budget is non-dutch so you do not pay interest on the rehab budget until you begin to make reimbursement draws.

But, everyone has to live somewhere, and for most of us that means paying to love, so why not have someone else subsidize that cost while building equity for you. 

You might pay $100,000 less for a resale vs new with the same rent.Most new home communities do not allow investors.Many if not most of the HOAs for the new home communities are not friendly to investors. 

If the seller will entertain it you write it into your offer - what you're willing to pay total, loan term, interest rate, down payment. 

For example, you can use credit cards for vacations you can't pay for.