You mentioned a cosigner for the income/work experience piece (parent), and yes that is the right solution.

I'm planning to use it as an STR, so that gave me the leeway to use some creative finishes and solutions.

These are normally setup for short term financing solutions so you can move fast to purchase, refinance into long term loans, then use your cash to buy some more or invest into rehabs...

Forest through the trees kinda thing.

Hi @Johnson Liv, The long-term solution would be to have language in your lease that protect you from a) prohibiting people who are not on the lease from living there, or b) limiting how many people per bedroom are allowed. 

Unfortunately this and low rates have created a real affordability crises and debt that is the stickiest type of debt (besides student loans)New government solution of the day incentive for selling your house 😆😆 They subsidize credit.

A deer jumps out in front of you - the sewer backs up; you get a flat - someone backs into the power pole; a rock cracks your windshield - some wind blows a large tree branch through a window.

This dynamic is causing a shrinking supply of the most affordable housing solution in America, at a time when the demand for affordability has never been higher.

If it's there, painters have primers they can use to (try to) cover the smell (the primers I know of have a heavy solvent smell for X hours and are not for pet or human occupied dwellings).You could offer two solutions (recommend air fresheners be used if they stay, AND (before move in) offer to let them out of the lease).

It is how you design and write your content on your website that will get you leads.Furthermore there is no difference between multifamily, single family, dog, tree snot or poop.