My housing expenses will be going to almost zero within the next few months as I am doing an extreme form of house hacking (aka moving back in with my parents for a year).

@Mario Mormile, a friend of mine bought a FL beach condo using some of his own funds and a loan from his parents.

.- We are in the process of creating a parent company, which will hold the subsidiary LLC's, which will then be the companies that actually hold property.- We have individual LLC's, & each LLC holds one property at a time.

Parent now in seventies bought house for sibling approx 15 yrs ago.

It is generally a mix of a few things: responsiveness, ease of use, and what I call “parenting.”Responsiveness ties in closely to quality of maintenance—when there is an issue, the tenants need to be able to get ahold of you.And, they need to see action being taken.That doesn’t mean that they expect the problem to be solved immediately or ever, but the owner or manager is basically the Tenant’s account representative for the property.They want to know that you are listening, caring and offering either support or an explanation as decisions are made.Next, “Ease of Use:” It needs to be easy to live in your home.An obvious example of this is the rent payments.

They’re not going to re-do it, and you can’t withhold payment because you’re not really paying them anything (it’s more like bartering and they’re already in the house getting the benefit of the free rent).

I've had my parents (with PoA) look through a few properties for me, and even submitted an offer on one, but was beat out by a cash offer. 

Self-employment or income other than wages from employment such as tips, commissions, school subsidies, or allowances from parents may require verification.

My parents live in an RV and travel around the country, building and remodeling churches.

My parents had divorced years earlier and my dad passed away.