If you are buying a pretty house and paying retail, then banks are a better option.  

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Or maybe I am looking at this incorrectly and 5% upfront is very much in line with industry?

You don't necessarily need rental comps, because your applicant won't have any either.When you study different market you often find that rents for single family homes are often about 400 to 500 higher than the monthly PITI for the property.This follows the same principal as any other mature market; the retail cost of capital goods often times settles around 20% -30% over total cost.

In that vein I am also interested in being a loan officer and working in the mortgage industry.

As an investor yourself, you know how to run numbers, have a network of rockstar lenders/contractors/PMs, know how to negotiate with sellers, know what to look for in an investment property vs retail, know what neighborhoods other investors are active in and have potential upside, and understand the emotional side of investing as opposed to retail. 

I usually ask my clients to connect me with their prior Loan Officer or someone they worked with at their prior bank to get the form expedited because sending it to corporate to complete can take days...especially with the recent turn times in our industry with servicers.

&text=It's%20official%3A%20Tampa%20is%20the%20best%20city%20in%20Florida.I help my investor and retail clients find properties in Tampa for AirBNB purposes consistently.

The huge government and university job base helps prevent the slides down while the tech, medical, and other industries provide the ride up.  

What are things to consider when creating a LLC in the construction industry?