If you don't need your co-signers credit score for the loan and just need help with the down payment, you could accept a gift of the amount needed for the down payment and just write a letter explaining the gift to your bank!

Consider the tenant a vested landscaper and pay a little bit for the favor.  It

Anything written about Home Possible prior to July of 2019 (including my many posts about what was formerly my favorite mortgage product) is obsolete. 

I decided I want to buy my first house this year and why not a change and something different in my favorite state.

Those are my two favorites.

I have the opportunity to buy my family home in the next few months, and would like advice on how a gift of equity works.

Here are a few of my favorites: "Multi-Family Millions: How Anyone Can Reposition Apartments for Big Profits" by David Lindhal "Crushing it in Apartments And Commercial Real Estate: How a Small Investor Can Make It Big" by Brian Murphy "The Book On Rental Property Investing" by Brandon Turner "Best Ever Apartment Syndication Book" by Joe Fairless and Theo Hicks "What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cash Flow...

@Hannah Krebs  my favorite siding guy in the Twin Cities is @Aaron Bible. 

.- Walmart gift cards for tenants who have lost their jobs- switching to Rhino to allow tenants use their security deposits to pay rent in exchange of singing on a rental insurance ($5-$10/month)- keep an honest and open line of communications with our tenants, and letting them know we are there for them.How did you handle rent collections? 

Further, I have a new set of Speed Queens coming next week as a little gift to my tenants (and to me ;) )...