The properties we buy enable us to FORCE APPRECIATE the property and increase its NOI.

You do not want to be forced to sell at a market low.Why does leverage increase ROI? 

The entire advantage of Section 8 is getting higher than market rents for C or D class properties.

The point is to raise rents and force appreciation of the property.

I am sensitive to the notion that we're in a pandemic and as far as I know nobody in the building is struggling from COVID-19 circumstances yet the size of the monthly loan payments is going to force my hand to bring many of the units up to market rates.

Definitely check out a meet-up, you will surely meet some interesting personalities and will no doubt gravitate toward someone with a similar style to your own. 

It'll force you to be more efficient. 

I was thinking the only way anyone is going to get a bridge loan of that size for those type of assets is maybe an FHA type loan were the GOVMIT is semi forced into these areas.. for free market investment bankers I can see them thinking the risk is simply to great.. a project that size could never get off the ground as they rehab some units they get broken into and trashed before they finish the place.My friend used his cash to buy the one I mentioned.. and promptly lost 500k... 

If I flip houses I am forced to flip now and in the future because it's a job not an investing strategy.  

In the meantime, my buyers were forced to scramble to figure out their own housing.So my advice is to allow a post-sale occupancy only as a last resort.