Having a vacancy costs money!

Asking strangers how to spend your money is a fool's errand.

Going direct instead of having a GC do the work will save you money too since that GC will put a percentage on top of work. 

For the most part, most lenders are going to be relatively close in cost assuming we are talking about a straight forward loan product, we all borrower from the same pool of money to make these loans. 

Pretty easy to make 2% or more when you're spending that kind of money.

Meanwhile, bank money market paying 7.5%. 

Quote from @Paul Whitehurst: Many will tell you to borrow money from Property A to purchase Property B, but that's known as over-leveraging and not recommended for a newer investor.

And you probably need money for living expenses.

The days of cash flowing and not leaving any money in the deal is gone(unless it's a unicorn). 

Quote from @Chris Pontello: Hi Chris,Correct me if I'm wrong as I'm still learning creative financing solutions, but paying them some money would be if I could take over the loan.