If you know anyone who may be willing to sell their a portfolio, I’d be happy to pay a finders fee or even work out a percentage of our deal for you. 

On the other hand, investors who rely heavily on debt markets tend to respond swiftly to macroeconomic factors like rising interest rates, concentrating on large, management-intensive projects, and adjusting their price targets based on their evolving cost of capital and future cash flow projections.The top end of the market sees a limited number of marketed investment deals, but the sluggish transaction activity is not due to a lack of supply at the lower end.

Which could always become my new primary if it doesn’t work out as a rental. 

When someone pays $99 for a weekend seminar and the “business/investment opportunity” doesn’t work out for them they just go about their business with little concern.  

Real estate is capital intensive.  

Move them out, clean the units up, and place your own tenants at market rate.Any other method is going to create a ton of work and stress, and it probably won't work out well for you in the end.

Not to be pessimistic but what if your relationship doesn't work out?

Just a quick look at your needs list, you would be looking at double that especially if you are contracting all the work out. 

Here's a deal analyzer template that I use.Even then, I recommend making sure whatever property you buy can also cash-flow as a long-term rental in case things don't work out.

If so, how did they work out for you?