Glad to look into your deal in detail if you want to PM me the rest of the information.

Typically you'd have to put up the amount required at the auction (for instance 10%) and from there a hard money lender can fund part or all of the rest of the purchase.

Brokers and the owner of course suggest that I buy the rest of them out of their condo which sounds easy enough...Can anyone offer their experience they had from a similar situation?

A zoning change is at the discretion of your local elected officials and your "making it better" argument can prevail, especially if you can also show the area is already predominantly commercial or it should be.Good luck!

If you're interested in Cincinnati, you should probably keep your mind open to the rest of Hamilton County.

We eased into it by starting with EVOLVE to handle listings and reservations while we handled the rest, then took over the listing/reservations ourselves.

When I said go buy a apartment, what that means is instead of joining a website about real estate investing to complain about your landlord maybe you should stick around and learn some more information so that you dont have to be a tennat for the rest of your life. 

Our 4-month goal is to find a place to purchase and let DH "house hack" until we are in a position for the rest of us to move up there.Right now...I'm grasping at Zillow.

(When I take distributions from my LLC to my personal account, I write an official company check that is recorded in my ledger)Hopefully this was helpful.

My other plan is to find something in my area in Shirley NY that needs some reno (nothing crazy) that has a finished basement that I could live in while the tenant rents the top that way I could qualify for an FHA loan and use the rest of my cash for renovations.