I'm not super familiar with how the VA/lender will consider your rental income, but I'm fairly positive it is able to be considered as income for qualification purposes, but there may be an asterisk there.

If this pm did know your preferences and ignored them and you feel they were careless with your contact info (that info would be fairly easy for most people who wanted it to find) it is time to hire a new pm.

Mix that with being your best friend and you don't need a forum to tell you that you how this will end.Most of my properties are fairly unique like the one you are working with so I always market them myself.  

I do all of my own evictions and over the last 10 years or so of having rental property I've done my fair share of evictions lol.  

The guidelines for FHA are fairly strict so my lender was going to look further into it.

We are trying to build a network of hard money lenders who are willing to work with newbies with little skin in the game in Houston, TX.

I'm outside of the 60 minutes then, but my parents do live in MI a few hours north so we travel up that way fairly often.

You'll get paid when the money comes in, but just know I don't make any money until you get paid, isn't that fair?"

You have a fair amount of money to put to work.2.

Second, skin in the game.