It says the lease must be executed within 10 days and you didn’t even send it to her.

My options were rent, own, or house hack and I would have liked to have done a house hack, but there aren't many multifamily's in my community, so I settled for the American Dream.

The actual execution of the process eludes me.

Once I refi, I plan on using the money to start executing the BRRRR strategy.

I grew up in residential construction in Florida so I know enough to know a) I don't have the skill to execute and b) the time to devote to GC'ing that work vs day job and other RE investing. 

Basically, the expectation that a purely retail FTHB "American Consumer" is going to just find something on the MLS at full retail market price, find a GC and pay the full retail market price for their services, full retail price for all materials, and all that, is completely out of whack.

Well, Invitation homes, American Homes 4 Rent, Tricon Capital Group and many others have figured out how to scale.

I had First American Home warranties on a couple of my rentals (I usually put a 1 year warranty when I buy a house that comes with appliances and has an older central AC unit). 

Sheriff executes sale at foreclosure auction. 

I normally recommend to new people searching with using American FactFinder (census.gov) to use "Place within State" for all searches.