Are hard money lenders active in the area.

hard to compare both exactly but I would say we may be higher on the scale overall than many areas (and maybe moving on up further after this morning and this afternoon)

Sure, I wo't have the same financing options, but I might be able to work with hard lenders, or perhaps eventually set up a LLC and maybe that will open up some other financing avenues. 

I think it’s hard to have enough cash flow to hire a full time, quality manager who actually allows you to be completely hands off when you only own one laundromat.

It will be a lot of hard work for little to no pay (or loss) until you hit a point that will be long and hard. 

Maybe their guess at what the market value is is actually what the market value could potentially be if someone (the next owner) does the hard work of getting the rents up to that value.

It's really hard to predict where regulation will go and it is indeed one of the risk factors for all investments.

and maybe you could find a realtor to do it, but that's going to be really hard too. 

In my experience, finding cash-flowing deals on-market can be challenging here (1% rule can be hard to find) but not impossible.

You can make money there, but it's hard money, and it's not forgiving if you get it wrong.