It turns out her old landlady in a similar situation had brought out a contractor and made a lot of noise about replacing the whole vinyl window, and finally charged her $70.00 for an entire new screen frame shipped from the window manufacturer.Same landlady who ate my tenant's security deposit and had never heard of giving notice before banging on the door.

I would like to secure my friend's loan with a lien on the property in 2nd position.

Results may vary, but the most common thing to do is keep it in your personal name for 6-12 months and get a cash out re-fi through a regular bank.

There's another one by a securities attorney, Gene Trowbridge, "it's a whole new business".

Also, review the closing documents to ensure that the tenants' security deposit is credited to you and that it matches what is in the lease agreement. 

There is easy access to ‘corner dealers’ and there is semi regular gun fire.

At this point with only 6 months left to wait, increasing interest rates, as well as higher debt load from remodel, it may benefit over the long term mathematically with the secured lower rate, because the margins in Denver are tough.

Remote locks, security, intelligent door bells, Alexa etc. 

But the broker is working with the city to secure and confirm the zoning designation to continue to use as a mobile home park.

Even though many subprime lenders are focused solely on auto loans, there are still a great number of financial institutions that are diversified between auto, real estate, and other securities.