Would getting the lawyers involved to negotiate for us be a good play?

If you can cross that hump and stick with it, it comes at some point and you wake up realizing you have built something sustainable and special. 

Connect your phone to your computer via USB cable or Wi-Fi.4. iTunes should automatically prompt you to sync.

Anyone have some good advice to get me over the hump?

As I am sure you know, the house prices here are ridiculous and as a result, I incorporated in the US in 2018 and purchased a turnkey Duplex to start hopefully a series of great relationships in the US. Being

I did in fact order blueprints at my contractor and engineers request -  yet the city has had the request, the usb drive and uncashed check now for two weeks and 1 day.

@Anthony Ballard - Since you are already familiar with the benefits of REI, I bet just further education will put you over the hump. 

Hopefully after this first hump I can leverage the equity in my first property when looking to put down for the second.

I do have a partner in GA that’s willing to apply for the loan but a little unsure about how to go about doing this with us being so far apart. 

@Tim Johnson one big hump through the middle of one of the rooms.