Be sure that you highlight that "selling your house can be easier than you think" with the advantages of working directly with you instead of the more traditional route.Good luck!

Traditionally, large companies installing plants become game changers when they are investing in rural areas without significant development.

I read somewhere that a study showed there was something like a 19% premium paid for 1031 transactions versus traditional sales. 

As for financing, a Boarding House would not qualify for 'traditional' financing (page 268 of the FNMA Selling Guide under ineligible properties) and you'd need seller financing or a commercial bank.

And in the podcast and in other places I keep hearing people say they get hard money lenders or put up their own capital or some other form of financing to originally purchase and reno a house and then refi with a traditional lender. 

Here are some options I offered: I could just buy it outright with a traditional mortgage. 

Q: On financing: I've heard on podcasts local lenders are better than traditional banks given your WellsFargos, Chases, etc usual have high loan balance requirements to lend.

Won't my interest rates be much higher on loans like this as opposed to a traditional mortgage?

I can leverage the cash value from now till the time I retire.Here's the logic behind this: Life Insurance Cash Value can generate 2 to 3 times the retirement income of money in traditional retirement assets.

I do traditional lending, so I know all those paths that I can take there.