I applaud you and your wife for thinking about this so early and your apparently great ability to save money for this next step! 

My challenge is that the equity is siloed in a high number of properties which complicates our ability to draw against it and leverage that for operational and investment purposes.Do you all know of banks willing to work with investors and able to underwrite at the portfolio level, rather than having to apply for and open HELOCs on a per-property basis?

However, between the work-from-home ability and the recent crime spike in D.C. post covid, many businesses have moved just outside the city to areas like Alexandria and Arlington, which in their own regard already had thriving business environments.This macro trend, along with the massive amount of economic and infrastructure development happening in Alexandria will lead to massive rent growth and home price appreciation over time. 

., and ability to verify receipts and transactions (the verification is done by upper management to check and validate the revenues and expenses)4.

A broker's track record and their ability to close deals successfully should be prioritized over the highest offer.

So for a mobile home not attached to land, you can write up a bill of sale?

The State of New Jersey has just passed a bill that would ban the conversion to condos for all housing only in Hudson County.

I can see where the bank may be unwilling to make a loan to this particular borrower, or that this borrower may be unable to find anyone to finance them, but financing the purchase of a note is possible.The borrower has no ability to allow or disallow the sale of the note that's backed with their loan.

The thing that would put it over the top, is when it gets a fully editable and printable scope of work builder, along with the ability to edit some of the other forms.

The ability to create equity and cash flow without “finding” deals is beyond amazing even with the upfront cash challenges.