Both Prosper and Lending Club offer loans big enough to cover your 50% down payment.Something I would never recommend to most people, but as a last resort -- if you absolutely knew you COULD pay it off any time you wanted, you could put the down payment or at least a big chunk of it on a credit card and float it between 0% balance transfer offers until you get it paid off.

Building a strong network takes time, but collaboration with industry peers can lead to success for your mid-term rental.

So, whatever the strategy, I would make a goal to get to at least 4-5 rentals within a reasonable amount of time ESPECIALLY if it would be a hardship to handle a bad tenant situation. 3.

We're growing and currently have 13,000+ apartment shortages due to the spike in new jobs coming to the area. 

I used rental arbitrage to scale from $10k in my pocket to nine arbitrage properties in less than 2 1/2 years and then used that cash flow and profit to hire a full time operations manager, build a STR property management business with a partner and work with investors to purchase properties out of state..  

Nice job!

He lost his job and his mother is currently paying for the rent.

I did the entire rehab myself so I have those skills, but I am looking for some help this time around to scale faster. 

However, I have not heard of how the loan rates compare to the more frequented options.Context: First-time young homebuyer.

Sadly local realtors were having hard time finding the number too :(