If you have experience you can get very good rates from a traditional bank. 

I've found the big traditional franchises to not be investor friendly in the Portland market.  

Is my best option to structure a similar deal but look for non-traditional financing (i.e. seller-financing)? 

@Jay Hinrichs  I heard the CA was that way to, in fact it is done by mail and there is no settlement in what would be considered the traditional way here.

You are right, given all the traditional Cougar partying, I guess 2MM might be a little light on the coverage.

It is generally about 2X the cost of traditional insurance. 

Airy, she is investor friendly but can help with traditional homebuyers, too.

At this point I would like to raise the money, buy and hold essential for 2 years or less, turn around and refi the property with "traditional" money.

He was skeptical about this being,  a non traditional way of purchasing property through a lawyer and such.

The idea being to help you find comps you might otherwise miss using the traditional approach, but with any comp engine you should carefully review each comp and eliminate those that are inappropriate using your local knowledge.