Buy Scott Jelinek book or audio on Amazon and learn about Slow Flipping.

If they can not help you with budget I would move on to a new consultant before you are too deep with them.

That doesn't seem like it would be your responsibility.I personally really like Bank of America for a lot of reasons, but paper checks are always slow.

We've had a slow start, but are hopeful for improvement over this coming summer.

I say take a deep breath, step back, have a drink, chill-out, then approach the situation in a way to answer everything with MATH. use math, data, details to say how good or bad each property is, and to dictate what direction should be. 

Not to say you can't make it work, there's definitely opportunity... but I would take it slow, utilize this platform and those who've already generously reached out to you to help, and know your numbers. 

When the market slows enough, people will start to sell off, which will drive down prices, which will reduce equity, will will drive people to sell off, which . . . you get the idea.I'm just a nobody with an opinion, and I've been wrong at least twice in my life. ;)

-It rained, and the water from the rain stayed on the roof, up until 5 inches deep in some places.

I was getting multiple offers to sell my holdings at a deep discount.

Just want to be careful on which broker/lender you use because some of them have a prepayment requirement and try to stick you with a 3-5 year prepay.There is also a 40 year I/O interest only but its only fixed for the first (10) years.Make sure you know how many months reserves they require before you get to deep into paying for the appraisal and then find out the deal is cancelled in underwriting.