Thanks to them, I am able to put a $65k offer on what would normally be a $250k home (my market is still a buyer's market so homes normally sit 75+ days on the market) and there's only a handful of investors in my area so I don't really have that much competition since regular people won't touch it.

We do have simplisafe which might have failed to ring.My idea is to have a security guard who can be present at the property while no one is working there.

Roughly speaking, my mortgage payment would deflate (reducing my "rent payment") or if I rented it out the rent increases would inflate, keeping the previous numbers "real."4)  Social Security @ age 62, $1,760.The above scenario does not include my taxable account of  ~ 110K, which is about 15% stocks, 10% bonds, rest high yield savings cash.  

Right now, we have 5 of 2yr recycle dumpsters in the trash room (2 additional ones for regular trash).

Did you collect a security deposit to assist?

I will be sending my contractor through once financing is secured.

Sounds like your goals are consistent with many of us....financial freedom and security.

(d) A public or private water supplier shall not impose a lien against real property to secure unpaid charges for water furnished unless the owner of such real property is the person who incurred the charges and shall not deny water services when such a lien has been extinguished.

I love Airbnb, but we are looking to invest in future properties in a less continuously labor intensive way. 3 properties are easy enough for me to clean myself but beyond that, we would need to hire cleaners more regularly and eat into our profit. 

FHA security instruments require a borrower to establish bona fide occupancy in a home as the borrower’s principal residence within 60 days of signing the security instrument, with continued occupancy for at least one year.Source: https://www.hud.gov/sites/documents/4155-1_4_SECB....