He was specifically thinking in terms of flipping.My general (albiet inexperienced) impression is that if I'm looking to rent it and can do so, as long as I can get rents in excess of any monthly outlays of these loans, pre or post financing, then I'm staying ahead potentially indefinitely--this assuming I refinance into a single set rate.

Competition is what keeps us from getting fat, lazy and arrogant.

Although, I do have access to credit in excess of what I would need to use to aquire the property, should any emergency arise.The houses this company offers generally sell in the 40-60k range, so my plan was to pull about 10-15k from my credit cards (whatever 20% of the purchase price would be) and fund the remainder with a hard money loan.

Time to trim the fat and find ways to innovate.I’m interested in digital door locks that are on the market (like these).

What has always worked in good times and bad, and what this COVID left bleeding, and what's getting fat now.

@Umair Khalid does your lease state that the tenant is responsible for excess water bills due to unreported leaks?

So they weren't being sold because of excessive neglect, the owners were ready to retire and had kept them up functionally, just maybe not aesthetically.  

I’ve heard theories from pretty smart people that we will approach nearly free electricity as more and more solar power is generated and more and more batteries back up the excess power.

The general time frame for completion on just that part of the selling process can take from weeks to months to complete (again, assuming that the EPA doesn't force the owner to get any excessive pollution remediated).

Most owner operators live like FAT CATS when business is new and sales are strong and suck out the cash flow.