You say the following below: To me it sounds like you want to take the easy road - there is no easy road in real estate - its hard.

Acknowledgement: Apologies if I've been hard to reach.

@Salome Ditmars Although it is great to get referrals this is also something you should take upon yourself to get to know the sponsor and establish a relationship with them since this is your hard earned money you are looking invest with them. 

If you have a professional tenant, this can be hard or near impossible.

In France, they sell wine.They identified their customers (in your case, reliable tenants) and delivered what they wanted to buy (rent).SummaryA proverb has helped me: "Yard by yard, life is hard.

Nice - congrats - hard to find Multifamily DSCR Loans at that size but looks like you successfully executed!

The hard part is, there are ZERO comps for this place.

He started doing small, low-key investor dinners where everyone could swap stories and insights, no hard pitches, just good conversation.

But I also feel though my moves were successfull, that I probably took the long hard way to get there.

Another loan is a residential transition loan (FKA hard money loan) that you could also use.