I played sports my entire life mostly football I played for 7 years, and now I play pick up basketball more then anything.

Your best bet if you have other properties is to get a HELOC or refi to pull out the equity and use that for the downpayment.Good luck!

Best bet would be to talk to some local commercial real estate brokers that specialize in retail and office leasing.They will be the ones in the know.That being said I like urgent care, medical, dental, eye dr, chiropractor etc they always make good long term retail/office flex tenants.

You plan is to refi to lower your current mortgage payment and pu;ll out $45k, and spend that $45k to improve your current home so you can bet a HELOC on it to get your $45k back...that you just spent. 

** I am also looking for the bets way to approach the appraiser so he or she realizes how much work was done on this home.

I think your best bet would be to buy a place in N.

That is a real shame, I bet that was a pretty cool rental.I am focusing on buying properties in my self directed ROTH IRA, that way I don't have to pay tax on the income (ever) or capital gains tax if I sell one day.

Once you move to Idaho then you bet by all means deal with the 2am phone calls for emergencies. 

Keeping the conventional loans would be your best bet however their are lenders that offer 30 year fixed terms for investment properties.

I bet we’ll see a similar report on SF by summertime :)  https://www.millersamuel.com/f...