About 3 years ago we had an unbelievably juicy deal that a banking institution needed to get rid of brought to us by a broker who had spent a full year following up, selling, negotiating, contacting, etc until he had a deal.  

This will need to be in cash in your bank account.

Sounds like that may be a bank specific product and a pretty sweet one at that.

I used F&M Bank there in the same town to give me the full purchase price of 325k.

Download all your bank transactions to excel for the period you want and then code them on there.

For me, I prefer, land banking and  multifamily development.

That may not even have had bank accounts growing up paying things in cash and with money orders.

@Benton Williams Buy the property, raise the rents and give a 60 day notice of the coming increase (a minimum of 60 days or what is allowable in your jurisdiction).

I have $70K of my own money I can use as a down-payment, but am looking for someone to finance the rest ($280K) as I'm a real estate agent and am having difficulty securing a loan from a traditional bank in a timely matter.

I'd consider writing the bank a check for a couple grand but surely won't for $10k or more.