Dirty laundry out where you cook,.. not sure how attractive that is if there is an alternative that's relatively convenient. 

@Erin Onsager one solution I've used, and I know some other local investors have used here in Rhode Island (and likely all over), is to try to find off market deals where you can do creative seller financing, which is often at better rates/terms than you can get from banks.An alternate strategy is to try to raise private money from friends and family, again this is often at better terms than banks.

A lot of my clients applied for and received Obamacare subsidies, only to learn at tax time that they did not qualify and now have to repay thousands of dollars for what they thought was a cheap government insurance.A popular alternative to traditional health insurance is a ministry-sponsored health-cost sharing plans.

Of course, I realize that money pays for schools, infrastructure, and government employee payrolls and pensions, so, carving out some of it for lead/asbestos abatement is not very realistic, hence, my reason for posing an alternative solution in the form of tax incentives for small investors to take on properties with those issues, but, good to hear that Cleveland is already doing something like that.4.

Far less expensive than the alternative.

You need to have your plan, multiple alternate versions of how your plan will still pay in the face of difficulty, and essentially that you know exactly what and how you are doing. 

Alternative would be non-QM where if rents cover PITI then the loan is approved, minimal doc requirements (credit report, appraisal, bank/asset statements, lease agreement, few others) but your rates are non-QM (6 to 9%). 

My advise would be to stay away from the big name companies with real pretty trucks and four page fancy letterhead proposals.

It makes sense given the breed was created for fighting. the little girl that lost the eye was just walking by the back of the pick up truck and the dog lashed out and caught her in the face,My daughter was on the floor lying next to it petting it and it snapped.. she was very lucky.But the abuse some of those dogs take from owners is just so bad.. 

That Bubbly little 5 foot woman decided life wasn’t worth it any longer and pre mediated this action by jumping out in front of a logging truck.