One, if you are buying turnkey, visit with your turnkey provider and see the product they are putting out.

I also agree that some of these "gurus" make their living off of selling products and selling coaching.  

Often the large banks have delays as well.A loan product I have to use often in my market due to its competitiveness is using a loan where the borrower goes through the full underwriting process before making offers.

In every case it just made so much sense to do what I did - and the end product was so much better than before - that the investment was worth it.

Purchase your next home using FHA so that you can make the minimum down payment, and use the rest of your capital towards income producing properties.

@Stefan Dickert   check out Myrarebird.com  they have once a month meetings it cost a little bit to join them but they don't pitch products and give some good solid advice from what I witnessed. the two gentlemen who run it are VERY knowledgeable and good guys to know.My daughter is in corporate finance at Intel so you can imagine with the shake ups how busy she has been LOL.. wish you the best

We recently bought a short sale 2nd home in Deltaville, VA which could make more $ than I will this year.....prompted the taking of a closer look at our portfolio and realized the need to add revenue producing assets for our family. 

I decided it wasn't the product for me.

However, you may be able to sell your % to the other investors as one sale and go forward with a 1031... if the corporate structure can handle it appropriately, if you can say/demonstrate that your intent when you went into the deal was to hold the property for productive use and now that the groups direction has changed you are selling your portion to purchase other property to be held for investment.And if the improvements to the property would not cross the threshhold of "creating inventory" and could be classified as ensuring best and highest use.  

How helpful is it to build a big/productive team?