Springfield is a great market and there are numerous active investors in the area to network and work with.

Usually Cap Rate gets me into the ball park and facilitates the decision to make an offer or not and at what price.

I often times find myself helping numerous BP members in any given week.

I know there have been numerous recent apartment projects completed in the past 6-7 years which likely contributes to the available units.

I've contacted the property management company on numerous occasions to see if the tenant will be paying but have not heard back as to whether the tenants have responded.

I found numerous calculators, but none that will allow me to include the balloon payment at the end.Thanks

We did it numerous times. 

The tenant ("new business owner") and I both agree that it makes sense for him to buy the space from me, and have agreed on the basics of the deal.So ... my question is ... do I have to get a broker to facilitate this deal, or can I do it myself? 

So I hired a contractor to come clean the 40' long 10" diamater tree branch off the roof and numerous other branches leaning collapsed fences, I hired another contractor to come fix the roof leak. 

There are a few mentoring programs that have various different levels that are not more than $10K and BP has numerous threads about the value of different mentoring programs.If you're not going to invest in a mentoring program and still want to seek a mentor, then bring something of value to those individuals.