Buy it off like a regular purchase, and/or modified wholesale transaction with a very long selling time.

Create a neighborhood website and post regularly news items that affect the neighbourhood. 

Or you could withhold some of your tenants security deposit and let them chase the moving company.

I bought  materials 22.66 Square worth of shingles (22 regular and 0.66 ridge cap) and he billed me for 24.66 square ( I had to buy some more shingles before he finished so he wouldn't run out). 

Any advice or pointers will be greatly appreciated as we make our first step into securing our first investment.

The sponsor argues that they get credit for bringing the millions of financing their reputations allows them to secure to get the project done.

HELOCs typically function exactly like a credit card except thy are secured by the property you are borrowing against, whereas a normal credit card is unsecured.

They may do it with just a lower LTV 60-70%.If they wont give you the HELOC I dont see why they wouldnt just let you open up a secured line of credit with the duplex being the collateral

It is a great resource for education and networking.There are any number of agents from the Cleveland area who are regular contributors to BP. 

Your wisest course of action is to see if you could have the keys to your new place a couple of days early (after you have paid 1st months rent and security deposit) to allow you time to move.