You can also, "pay for keys." you would say something like "hey if you leave in 10 days, I will give you $500 dollars, but I have to see all of your stuff out and nothing destroyed to the property."

I will be paying cash for my 1st property. 

The statement is that the tenant has been in the property for five years and always pays the rent on schedule.

Does anybody know of any grants given to property investors where you don’t have to pay back?

I see that there’s a bunch of websites out that do that but you have to pay for the search and are they a legitimate site?

However, rate would be prime + index + an additional +2% for the shock factor just to qualify, but you can draw the funds whenever you want vs cash out where you have to draw all the money after closing.Many borrowers would keep opening lines of credit, assuming you have the equity + income to qualify, as you keep rinsing and repeating the heloc process.

Bottom line increase your range of the lock and most people will never know because they will not try to go outside a reasonable range.

The leases are typically for the tenant to pay maintenance, not for them to cover capital expenditures.

We do not want to be a lender or have our name taken off the title unless they can pay the “due on sale” mortgage. 

You have to know how to find and sign properties ahead of getting access to those buyers.You do want to do both at the same time so that when you have your first deal, you know someone, but don't expect anyone to pay attention to you if you don't have 4-5 deals at all times.