I understand the premise of how to analyze a deal and run the numbers.

Also, from my reading, I understood house hacking to start by 1 of 2 ways. 

@Ryan Thomson Understood, thanks for sharing these insights! 

If it's mixed use your pool of creative buyers drops Understood, that's what I would do.

We rarely have an issue and when we do they are legitimate - working nights, sick kid, pet on premises.

As someone that does syndications, this is an investor that I would hesitate to take a commitment from, until I really understood the entire situation. 

@Jackie Nguyen- yes - your best best  will be  a  cash out refinance on the rental proeprty  versus a HELOC ...yes you can have the lender you use  approve  the loan on the premise you will use some of thecash back to payoff debt 

The subject of the exception must not interfere with the use and enjoyment of any                  present or proposed improvements on the Mortgaged Premises or with the use and                  enjoyment of the balance of the Mortgaged Premises not occupied by improvements2.

I signed up about 7 months ago on the premise of being able to accept online payments.

They will lock it up, misrepresent to newer investors the ARV and hopefully get a deal done, but it is more about throwing deals against the wall and seeing what sticks than anything.I believe that a well put together and ethical wholesaler business can exist and that someone in that position would only need 3 clients to be extremely successful.If someone in my market was able to put together a plan to provide me with consistent deals that had reasonable profit margins and understood enough about the process of flipping a home to do so, I would buy every single deal they could produce.If you are daisy chaining deals together, you're in a whole new universe of non-contribution.