Its alot easier to learn and with a good boots on the ground agent that knows the market, you could make alot of money.

DSCR only requires that the rents be equal to or greater than the PITI payment or the ITI payment if you go I/O interest only.You can use DSCR for a cash out refinance, Purchase and even a "Rate and term" which is when you want a lower rate or get out of a HML - Hard Money Loan, Balloon payment, Adjustable rate getting ready to expire/adjust (Recast).

The rates don't make sense for refinancing, and I don't believe in selling unless I can move the money to an investment that moves me closer to my goals or life changes require me to sell.

Save money, invest in your home and don't skimp on that, and go to real estate meetups in your area to meet other investors and find out what their trajectory looked like.

Send the mom a bill for all the trouble.

I am wanting it to be a win/win situation for everyone so we all walk away happy and with money in our pockets.

In reverse mortgage short sale, if seller is died, seller's heirs have no motivation to do the deal with me because they do not get any money from it.

If multifamily, no and low money down by brandon turner is a great book.

Is it worth spending that kind of money to learn how the gator lending strategy work?

Making smaller apartments from single family isn't going to go over well either because people are used to getting more square footage for their money, unlike in NYC.Micron is putting a chip factory in Clay, which is northeast of Syracuse.