Your pain is the vacancy of 3 months and its motivating you to make an emotional decision to rent to these kids, that's not a logical one. 

This office is is leased to a clinic with whom we also have a professional service contract through another corporation (let's call it Medical Corp).  

@Chris Mason could probably guide you in the right direction. 203k v HomeStyle are ballpark equal in terms of "how much of a pain in the *** is it to get one."

Personally I cannot see the shut down going another 30 days (double what it is now), the good news is Sect 8 landlords will be just beginning to feel the pain on Day 60 but really do not want to peer myself into the Catch-22 of not receiving rent, but being told it will be paid as soon as the government re-opens, especially with what I suspect would be the added joy of not being able to file an eviction on a tenant due to Federal delay in payment.

I plan to buy my first rental soon, and I thought a 6 month lease might help ease the pain of having an undesirable tenant. 

When you get sick of the pain & suffering of qualifying for and the high costs of bank financing. 

People that only have a few places and have mortgages will surely feel the pain soon if something isn't done pronto.

Investors can be a pain to start with just because they buy the lower cost houses, so at least let them know you value them by not asking for their salary.Lastly, do you really want to ruin a chance at getting the house? 

Regulations in Canada are an absolute pain to evict tenants without just cause, so increasing rent for current tenants will be a very slow process. 

It's a pain to have to go out there every time the buyer wants to get in, but you avoid exactly this kind of situation.These days, it seems like a lot of "cash buyers" are just wholesaling to someone else anyway.Even within the last week I saw the same deal presented to me from three different sources, each with a different level of mark up.