I've been contacted by a few victims, not an easy choice, even sharing litigation costs, you have a difficult to enforce judgment.

To be honest, this sounds like a scenario that would be very difficult to start off with.

Neither New York nor California is landlord friendly and therefore much more difficult to invest in.

Basically, the type of loans are different and it's also much more difficult to qualify.

Also the principal of this and pain somebody was trying to rip us off as difficult.

I find shaker cabinets difficult to clean no matter what the colour.

These are typically owned by “groups” so it is a little difficult to get lenders to take me seriously if I want to become the new owner. 

Excellent, you took initiative and did something very difficult for most people.  

If the sales price is $850k you will need significant down payment to carry the DSCR loan on $5300 current rents...check in with @Joseph Chiofalo  as DSCR loans 5+ units are typically a bit more difficult to place as well. 

The combo of the current rate environment, the current prices of most properties, and the current rental market makes cashflow much more difficult these days that it was a couple years ago.