Residential side: In theory if you have zero consumer debt and net rental income is 2.5x your personal PITI/rent (net rental income after the new mortgages), it can work with no job income.Appraisals will still be needed.Commercial side:There are blanket commercial mortgages.

Many agents are not busy enough to hire an assistant or start a team, but would be happy to get some of the time consuming errands off their plate.

There are two different approaches when it comes to rehab quality, markets, trends, time management, consumers of your product, and an entire host of other factors.

The average consumer is going to be your competition for any of the ideas that you have presented so far.I think to do what you are hoping to do, you need to not be hung up on a traditional mortgage purchase but to start looking for hard money funding or other alternatives and start looking through auctions or properties that will take more than $25,000 to rehab as this will greatly shrink your pool of competition.

Getting a family’s consensus on what should be sold can be time-consuming.

Natural gas is thru Consumers.   

Even though the state approved contract is intended to be consumer friendly it is still easy for a person experienced in real estate to take advantage of someone who isn't.  

Research The TCPA (telephone consumer protection act).

I'm in a similar boat in that I am lying in wait, but I am also a little worried as my properties are commercial in nature, and I am more concerned with consumer spending and what the market is doing. 

These units are in C neighborhood and will consume about 245k of our initial budget.