Trying to negotiate heavily after an inspection is tough unless it was something that the seller was unaware of.

There are many investors on this site you can learn vicariously from that have already paid the legal dollars and invested in their businesses heavily.

Heavily in the "business"?

I would think there'd be a shot with community banks (look at banks with assets under $1.0bn) lending for their portfolio, where they'll weight the performance of the asset (ie. the Debt Coverage Ratio) and your liquid reserves more heavily than DTI ratios.I'd put together a nice looking package highlighting successful track record with current properties, discuss your investing approach/strategy, and put together a well-documented pro-forma of the new property, reflecting a strong DCR of, say 1.75 or better.

Spring Meadows across 475 is a heavily traffic shopping area, and franchises are popping up there more and more.

I do know pre GFC that the out of state owners were worked pretty heavily by the local Realtors/property managers to take their gains to 1031 onto the mainland.  

The after tax net on this usually comes out heavily in your favor if your hold period isn't too long.

I kept the windows closed and heavily utilized AC to compensate.

George lived in a town near me and, like Jimmy, got to speak to him (once).The note investment game used to be more straight forward and now is heavily affected by compliance and servicing issues.

That means the majority of Americans do not have ability to save money and are probably heavily in debt.