Extremely competitive tho!

Well, maybe they ALL don't know each other but enough do so that reputations (good OR bad) get developed extremely quickly.  

Your thoughts and advise is extremely appreciated!!!.

If you take into account of renting an entire house on BnB it's pricing is hard to compete with a hotel room(s) in major destination areas.As for small houses, I looked at a couple projects and thought about a desig for the "micro house" and it is extremely difficult to get them to pencil from the construction perspective on a large scale.

I was extremely surprised when she told me I should approve for the Million dollars, because I guess I wasn't expecting that much, and I have to admit the % million was slightly intimidating, but I am someone who takes advantage and makes the most out of opportunities no matter how much I have to step up my goals.

Before you've owned it long enough to appear on tax returns, an investor friendly lender will just do [ rent * 75% - PITI ].Once it appears on tax returns, if you need/want to exclude the one-time rehab expenses, put it on line 19 of schedule e with the comment "see statement X," and then statement X in extreme detail lists all the repair and rehab work you did, and furthermore you can provide me with every single receipt/invoice, exactly matching the line 19 number, exactly down to the penny (so, it's best just to make each invoice/receipt be a line-item on statement X... if Contractor John gives you 5 invoices throughout the project, show me 5 line-items).Only one-time repairs/rehab can be discounted from the mortgage DTI math.

Mobile homes built prior to 1976 are extremely difficult to finance.  

Cash is too valuble to a investor to allow that to happen.Park your cash in a property if you are a extremely conservative investor, in which case there are far better and easier investment vehicles than real estate.

Their rates are extremely good and I'm kind of leery. 

A landlord would need to be a knowing accomplice to a crime or completely disregard working with the city for an extremely long period of time after the property was declared a public nuisance before anything near the ballpark of a home being confiscated from a private owner would take place.If there are any landlords out there who've had their homes declared public nuisances I would recommend you move to evict the tenant in that situation.