Lender of your choice needs the other appraisal to be able to find out.

If renting would be the better choice, are there any investors that have a property that could accommodate them and their animals?

If you use your name then you could apply for a low interest rate conventional loan but if you use business or LLC name then you have to apply for a commercial loan with higher interest rate.My money is on conventional loan, they only allow 4-10 of those loans anyways and then you have no choice but to go with portfolio or commercial loans.

So basically, i should try to get paid by a note when closing a sandwich, and only use transactional funding if i have no other choice. 

Bad choices all around; my father was an alcoholic who eventually died in a nursing home from end stage liver disease with his brain totally pickled from this disease.Gail

I have been looking at Long Beach NY, which is more affordable, and closer to where i work in the city, but does have flood issues, it is a popular area to live in, but would this be a good investment? 

PM me :) 4) Yes condos are becoming more & more popular even with the HOA's because the higher rental rates you get for a lower capital outlay washes out the HOA costs from an ROI perspective. 5) The longer you wait, the most it is going to cost you and the lower your ROI will be.

You have a choice on when to start Unless you have an income problem.  

(Buyer and Lender save money) Seller C may not want to move, however if they go into foreclosure they wont have a choice!  

Heres the approved courses:http://red.nv.gov/uploadedFiles/rednvgov/Content/F...Ive personally used proschools and onlineed and have no complaints.Key and Kaplan seems to be really popular as well.Ive never head of complaints about any of them.