You could offer the tenants "cash for keys", essentially pay them to leave early before their lease is up. 

Have them recommend a routine maintenance schedule, advice you on existing issues, and give you an idea of what might happen in the future based on the systems you have.On wells, you will essentially follow the same steps but you will be using a plumber.  

When you flip a house you are essentially a house dealer.

You could, essentially, live for free. 

They generally do not.While I found his attitude a little insulting (essentially saying that all tradesmen go out and drink their paycheck Friday night and are too hungover to work on Saturday), I did like the concept of looking at what they are invoicing for, comparing it to the quality and quantity of work actually done, having a few days to make sure it jives and then cutting checks.  

and it's 100% essential that there's an airport nearby (for work). 

Essentially I assigned the deal to him, and then he assigned it again to the end buyer.

Over in NY and here in CA landlords are required to hold a security deposit essentially in trust for the tenant, which means we can't comingle/use/invest it as if it were 'our' money, although we can 'hold' it in our personal checking account or similar in trust for our tenant(s).ITS NOT A LOAN.do correct me if i'm wrong.

There are "investor rehab loans" they just don't go by the same name as the 203k's but its essentially the same thing.

As Mark stated above, proving 2 years of income is essential and write offs (as necessary and tempting as they can be) can place some serious road blocks on your path to home ownership.