If the seller is mailing in payments and has and old style coupon book...

Is it possible to lease and apartment and then short term sub lease or rent (VRBO style)

You can adjust the language to fit your personal style after you've mastered it.

When analyzing a buy and hold style rental property, where do you find the certain the information you use to make these calculations.

1) glad you know your error now but I guess it's about minimizing damage now; in future I think anytime there's an environmental question beforehand about a property the ideal situation is you get what's called IIRC a 'no further action' letter before purchase otherwise pollutants in ground can be pursed by lawyers even though property has been sold to another owner 2) if you have 2 widely varying quotes, I think you need to drill down deeply into what both quotes are and are not covering and then probably get a 3rd quote with as much detail as possible to also compare

Initially, we were using a commercial style loan because the condo we're purchasing is non-warrantable. 

Depends on size, brand, type (electric, gas, electric heat pump style).I just replaced my gas one at rental and I went with the 12yr rated one and bought the Allstate protection plan for $69 that gives me 5 more years after the 12 yr manufactures warranty. 

These comps matches the property style,age,squarefootage, bedrooms and bathrooms.

Purchase price: $85,000 Cash invested: $21,000 Single family cottage style home on large secluded lot.

However, the communication style bothers me more than the maintenance items.