Fast forward a year later I am at home (Chicago) and find myself in the beautiful suburb of Oak Park.

In Phoenix, I might call up a friend who invests in mixed-use properties south of Roosevelt Row, and that friend might know a local title rep who’s been working with out-of-state buyers who like to pull the trigger fast.

A real estate investor is less likely to be named personally if the property is owned by an LLC although that's not a hard and fast rule to live by.

they will lose a ton of interest on 5.5% loan if we refi with someone else, but it would likely be 7% so its a lose-lose, they will lose our business and it could be in their favor to just drop the abusive term, ridiculous that a conventional loan doesn't let you keep the place after moving out. never saw that coming and this type of "pulling a fast one" is exactly why the other buyer who couldn't be present on closing specified that the power of attorney for signing closing documents was limited to exclude anything unnecessary. 

Only pre-foreclosures and people with other need money issues need cash fast, maybe like 10 percent of seller.

You want the fast-track for finding whos-who, call everyone.

Fast forward my entire career has been in construction from residential to commercial to industrial. 

We did start using TurboTenant and Facebook market place when Padsplit couldn't seem to fill them as fast as I would like.

Not saying there isnt any but when they do appear, they go fast and cash buyers prevail.

This was due to finance arbitrage like many retail bankruptcies, They were selling furniture/TV/appliances for 2 decades financed at 3-4% and borrowing at 2-3%, now their billions in floating rate notes are at 7-8% but only getting the fixed 3-4% for the washing machines etc They lost 77 mil last year and rising fast so had to Chapter 11 to stop the bleeding.Next 1-2 years will be very interesting in markets/CRE etc.