If you don’t get a lot of appreciation you will have a hard time refinancing to conventional after a year, unless you plan on buying the third and so forth with conventional after the both of you use your VA.Thank you for your service.

Thats a lot better than normal 80/20 split at full service brokerages. 

There are also good highway, bus and commuter rail services into Boston.I've done one flip in Rockland and currently have another under contract in Halifax.Given the landlord/tenant laws in MA, I will continue to confine my investing to fix & flip, rather than buy & hold.

And in nearly every situation, the realtor’s services are at no cost to the buyer, so why wouldn’t you want to be protected?

I don't deal with borrowers, I deal with loss mitigation firms, servicers, attorneys and property managers.

MF follows nice cycles from boom to bust and once supply hits the top and vacancies start to increase, rents will erode and incentives blow up eating into the cash flow quickly to the point were debt service becomes an issue. 

There is a lot of demand for these from people in the service industry.

We bought a nearby property and moved out.We're now trying to sell the property, but with close to $100k in non-house improvements (well, electric service, house pad, barn/workshop, fencing, etc.) it's a tough deal for a traditional lender to process.

February: - Started a data services business related to RE.- Went to see 3 off market properties (all wanted too much to make the #s work). - Set up 2 contracting job appointments for a GC I know who pays referral fees.Where I fell short: (Unclog bottlenecks)- Did not tighten up the process of handling my lead verticals to flow automatically, in volume.

Lenders can have overlays on top of the investor (FHA, VA, ETC) guidelines because they carry the risks of loans until they can sell them,  plus sometimes they choose to keep them and service them.