It also enables you to develop a local relationship.  

Credit cards aren't inherently bad, they're just mostly used wrong, enabling the financially immature and/or uneducated.

Creating cash flow enables investors to sustain themselves and their families along with their investing as well as growing their businesses and portfolios."

Building rapport with a seller is a great idea, and the two of you together may find a solution that enables you to buy all three buildings.  

If I look at it this way, I'm not so attached to it which enables me to stay level headed.

That enables you to buy around 550k with just 3.5% down payment.

A couple people mentioned books, which can help shift your mindset (and your wife's) and enable more meaningful action. 

Here the county loan limit for a 4 unit property is 532,950 That enables you to buy around 550k with just 3.5% down payment.

I told him that we could use that $100/month to get internet/phone at the clubhouse and use a wifi-enabled lock, meaning we pay less per month AND actually have WiFi at the clubhouse (he claims WiFi is a luxury we don't need... in 2017).

We considered the Cash for Keys options...however; I feel as though Cash for Keys is enabling them.