TY Have to stay within the boundaries of your contract, if seller elects to terminate because you have exhausted the allotted time and does not want to extend, you do risk termination, simply paying cash and then refi will be simple, you can also HELOC it and not pay any fees later : - you have options it sounds like

If I keep my records/paper trail organized, my bank accounts separate, my letterhead separate, hold my company out to be a separate and distinct entity (not an exhaustive list), I will still likely be able to maintain asset protection.  

Right now, going on your own, the odds of you exhausting all of your leads before ever getting paid on one is like drawing in hopes of filling an inside straight.

I've yet to find one who had any depth of knowledge on building codes beyond the extremely obvious, could spot building violations beyond something extremely glaringly obvious and none of them have x-ray vision.Jetted tubs with no access to pumps, lack of required dedicated electrical circuits, missing outlets, dangerous electrical issues such as lighting in wet areas, wire nutted connections  together and buried in a wall, miss-wired electrical panels, extension cords used for wiring buried in walls, bathroom exhaust fans that aren't vented anywhere... that's just a tiny list in one small category that are witnessed over and over again in flips that had home inspectors involved in the sale. 

And then I was just exhausted.  

All avenues of reset have been exhausted; some people just gotta go.

HMLs are about the last resort, the title lenders of RE, high interest, high points, short term collateral based commercial lending, certainly some are better than others, but I'd exhaust banks, credit unions, brokers with private money before looking at an established HML dealing on a national scale or even regionally.

So if you bought 4-unit properties, that is a total of 40 units before you would exhaust the conventional loans.

There will be a bit of time & money exhausted on my part after he leaves painting, cleaning, screening tenants, etc.

Working a 60 hour professional job while building a real estate portfolio was exhausting.