There's a couple things - you can get bridge funding now or some type of private money bridge/construction loan that will give you acquisition funds, so that you can acquire said building and then take the time to get your permitting squared, and then roll into construction portion once ready. 

If I had not extracted value I would be rolling in cash flow. 

If you're just starting and don't have time to deal with a lot of potential issues, turnkey is a great way to get the ball rolling.

Before your loan closed, did you roll into the mortgage 6 months of your mortgage payments? 

@William Anderson you forgot the option of rolling IRA  and old 401k monies to a Solo401k and then investing in RE.

Edgewater is decent but still a high risk roll.

Practice these answers until they roll off the tongue.

Etc) We have a corporation that we will pump the rent rolls through, so once the corporation gets off its feet, we have to get creative until we can purchase properties through it.

And THEN rolling the profit/equity into purchasing either land or a fixer-upper home in the other location we would like to retire.

Prices may come down some but you still won't have that upside to sell and roll the equity over into something bigger to hit your cash flow goals.