In my opinion, a rental property should serve three purposes, in my order but yours might vary: 1.

The sale of your Dominican Republic property and the purchase of a replacement property in the US would not be considered like-kind property for 1031 Exchange purposes. 

(Because applicant’s credit report would be accessible to you through the site, I would ask your agent to open his own account there, advertise your property, and deal with everything from A-Z - for liability purposes - like he would anywhere else.

Maybe a walk in shower with the window sealed up outside and inside and some nice sheet vinyl on the floor.Add a hand held shower head on a metal hose for hygienic purposes and to make cleaning the shower easier--many of them cost little, and an ADA bar or two to help prevent falls.

Offering a perspective from business purpose lending, we use the credit score that is highest among the borrowers.

Definitely, worth looking further into for investment purposes.

That will lead you to epic failure.If you haven't walked a lot of homes, or none, for investment purposes you need to find an investor-friendly realtor near you and start getting viewing reps.

I'm very interested in picking up a mobile simply for cash flow purposes.

Building confidence, and trust along the way.My wife and I both have 10+ years each working with this population in facility and clinical settings.There is an increasing demand well into the future to provide quality care/housing to this population.If done right this is a strong revenue generating niche.Today we are looking to attract small balance debt and equity, to support the scaling of ARF-DD facilities.In the last 2 months we have taken control (lease option to purchase) a SFR for this purpose.

won't be able to occupy the property if its for business purpose . would have to get more of a private lender or have the seller finance 80% and you provide them 20% down