. :)Thanks in advance for any of the time and effort you put in responding to my questions, I sincerely appreciate it.

He is counting on your inexperience in an effort to avoid the Sheriff.

It looks like the project is too big and not worth the effort.

The property itself is costing you money after equity opportunity compensation.If you sold and put the cash in a mutual fund you could probably earn the same of better return with zero effort on your part and never have a repair or tenant issue.Few investors actually understand the financial negative impact equity actually has on real cash flow.

If any part of your building sits on the lower elevation, however, you'll end up requiring flood insurance, so not worth the effort unless you believe your whole building is high enough.  

If someone asks, redouble your efforts to find it.

If you can get 100% return on that money in REI, without expending an ounce of effort, do that instead.

I've recently expanded my marketing efforts outside of Charlotte and contracted my first property in Concord last week.

The good things about owner financing is getting a property w/o going through all of the time/effort/expense of lenders and it won't count against the number of standard loans you get. 

There are more ways to do automated marketing that require no further effort on your part (just a little bit of $).