The second was Hugh Jones and it started out ok but eventually they started really pressuring me to buy Big deals, 30-100 units.

Essentially ended up screwed out of a substantial chunk of retirement savings and left to find my own lender elsewhere to close the deal.

What kind of deals are you looking at? 

And while seller financing is a very common practice in business acquisition, the good deals are not being done with high levels of it.Particularly with smaller deals, and especially with a business like a laundromat, there are cash buyers out there.

Quote from @Elijah Edwards: I am hitting a roadblock in finding deals...

In the long run, I want to have properties that are producing strong cash flow (eventually would love to own small apartment buildings and syndicate larger deals), but it seems that focusing on cash flow and reinvesting those cash flows will be a slower process than focusing on properties prime for appreciation or with opportunities for forced appreciation.

@Guifre Morai am searching for a HELOC or refi so I have some capital to take advantage of any future deals, sounds like HELOCs have been frozen, anyone have any info.

I haven't closed any deals in Walton, but Gwinnett and Rockdale are fine.  

The only thing we can think of is he deals with a lot of international trade and money and maybe it’s OFAC we just get a scripted message every time we talk to someone so we got lawyers involved. 

In my home market of Florida, our insurance rates have made it much harder to have positive cash flow on a CRE deal.