I would actually prefer the renovation is baked into the loan amount, so that I can quickly renovate and raise rents.

I'm finding that commercial lending is a bit of a nightmare, so I'm actually avoiding properties > 5 units for right now.

It's a huge 4 bedroom house and I now have other family members who want to move in and help pay the mortgage so this is actually looking pretty good right now

In some areas of Kansas City you can use Zillow - not the zestimate, but the actual sales prices on the maps, photos of houses and choose your own comps.But other than that - you do need to be a licensed agent.  

Larger government laws overrule smaller ones.Anyway, this page from the Ohio bar says you can put it in the tenant's name: https://www.ohiobar.org/forpublic/resources/lawfac...It's sounding like "keep the water in the owner's name" is common practice people think is actually required.Edit: I'm obviously not giving anyone legal advice, I'm just an accountant raised by lawyers, so I'm persnickety about this stuff.

Account Closed Thanks for the laugh, actually I don't think we could get $1100 for rent, more like $950.  

However, I would put some thought into how you owning the property they rent actually helps them.

I actually just posted something similar about this.

Actually, the deal is interesting because there are actually no managing expenses.

When we ignore our C on C returns we are basically saying that our money actually has little to no value.