Preparing a home well, staging when appropriate, and having strong marketing is crucial to help your listing stand out among the competition.If you’re a buyer, you have many more properties to choose from and significantly fewer buyers competing for them.

You are helping the sellers solve a problem, and are prepared to inject cash into their hands.

I am not against leverage on a property but always be prepared for the new amount of monthly payment due.  

College rentals generally turn over every year, however this offers a few distinct advantages (1) this will happen at the same time every year and it will happen when demand to rent is at its highest, this makes for a cycle that is easy to predict. (2) because turnover happens at the same time you can find out 3-5 months in advance if they are going to be renewing their lease you are able to prepare accordingly by advertising and pre-leasing the property months in advance.

It is public info and when you pay taxes through the state website in Connecticut you have to put your preparers license info. 

We currently are on a crunch to prepare for our upcoming projects, let's call it 110k, with another 100k in immediate (within the next 2 months, we can get 1 more set).

When drawing up the lease feel free to ask how long he's stationed in the area and if he wouldn't mind giving you a heads up if his orders change so you can prepare.

Normally the lender will have loan doc prepared, such as mortgage, note.

It is all about the numbers, Know what you can lease for, and be prepared to raise the rents to that. 

The point is, be prepared to pay premium for services rendered at a premium grade, in return, you will have less headaches and it is less likely you will be back on BP ranting about how your contractor never showed up or ripped you off somewhere.