Lenders tend to frown on borrowing your down payment, but they are usually fine with getting a gift from a blood relative.

Buy when there is blood in the street.

Just reading this makes my blood boil!

I'm not too keen on mixing money and blood though, I'd rather have a stranger do the work.....it's much easier to work with deals that are biz only and no family drama.

Basically blood/sweat/tears valuation.

Fire, flood, or blood call 911 all else can wait until normal business hours.

It has become part of my blood.

For the buyer, its attractiveness is assuming less eyeballs are seeing the deal - compared to if it were an MLS listing where its exposed to all who have access - possibly resulting in a more competitive, higher offer to get accepted - equals thinner deal. 

In the process of securing new Tenants I was told that the market had softened and could not get the originally advertised Monthly Rent, thus leaving me with a thinner cash flow than originally calculated...

That $4000/month market is pretty thin and gets thinner the more you move up the price range.