You are selling $500K of investment property and purchasing $500K of investment property so that would work out perfect for you. 

@Kris Nicholson You should join TREIA, and (independently) feel free to attend tonight's Triangle Deal Maker Sessions (go to MeetUp for details).

Get them out and try to work out a payment plan with them. 

How did it work out?

If it doesn't work out, I'm not married to the proposition, I'll sell it.

Go deeper and work out the true monthly costs and account for vacancy/maintenance/ cap ex.

Ideally whatever formula I work out will be scalable and I can do some more deals with other friends. 

I work out a lot as well. 

Here are some specific action items:-build out your profile on BP, I want to see a picture of you, know what you do and what your goals are-be helpful on BP, start trying to answer/participate in posts where you have some value-start reaching out to people on BP specifically, with small, specific asks-go to a few networking events every month and plan on talking to many people...it takes 5 + bad conversations to find 1 good one-go to 2-3 conferences per year and be very purposeful there in your intentions, don't just go to sessions and stay quiet, be intereactiveI probably should have started with this, but what is your goal in connecting with these people?

I don't get all the property but I work out some deal with whoever gets it to pare off the area around me and make it worth his/her while.If each of these scenarios has equal chance of occurring, then there's almost a 70% chance that I am able to get what I want, which is a significant buffer around me such that no one can be on top of me.