Land with water access is more expensive and more valuable.5.

You should be grateful to have a tennat that has access to equipment like that.

But since there is a limit to how much money the bank has access to....their rate will be higher...and usually a shorter term.

I want to move a bit closer to the area we are looking at so that I have a better access.  

You'll never get the contact info of appraiser because that goes against bank rules, but you can group email the loan officer to the property manager in a thread to schedule time for appraiser to do an inspection & take photos of occupied property.Certain documents require access to a printer so you need to handsign & scan documents & email them to bank.

I ran a pretty sizable HML shop in Oakland with my brokers license.. and you don't need to be a member of MLS or the board or anything.. although In Oregon were we are very active my wife is a broker and we have MLS access which is important for what we do.. build new construction and sell it.. the amount of money we save is pretty significant we sell about 10 mil or a little more of our own inventory a year.. so if I had to pay a broker to list it  that's 200k to 300k we save right there.. 

You'll never get the contact info of appraiser because that goes against bank rules, but you can group email the loan officer to the property manager in a thread to schedule time for appraiser to do an inspection & take photos of occupied property.Certain documents require access to a printer so you need to handsign & scan documents & email them to bank.

A lawsuit has been file by several out of state owners being denied access.

This could open up doors for off-market deals in the future- Access to market data- Ability to sell your own deals and collect commission to offset licensing and mls fees. 

Especially a commercial deal because it is difficult to re access that capital.