I've personally found the bulk of my Chicago purchases off the MLS.

I am curious myself on how purchasing a wedding venue business would turn out.

Why do you think purchase contracts are so long and have such small print?

If your current accountant is not a specialist in real estate taxation, you should look for one who is.Next time, you should also get a consultation to see if the cost segregation study will be helpful before proceeding with the purchase.

You can't actually pay it off directly because they've been securitized, and the people who invested in those securities did so because of the specific certainty of the payment schedule.What you do in a defeasance is use the proceeds of the sale or the funds from your new lender to purchase treasury bonds that are packaged to make the exact payment amounts and timings on the remaining term of the loan, and then assign those bonds to your old lender.

Meet with a local banker & schedule a time to talk with a mortgage broker, they'll give you at least a baseline of what kind of down payment options and rates are out there.After that, if you're still wanting to research more creative options, do some looking into seller financing (a very hot topic with good, and bad, advice out there), look into private lenders, and commercial financing options.If you're wanting to live in 1/4 of your quadplex, then conventional residential loans may in fact be your best option as you can purchase that with a fannie/freddy loan with very low down, and use up to 75% of the income from the property toward your own income. 

In Spain, this is usually seen more as a barrier as people rather would invest in individual units (less purchase capacity needed), but by rethinking the setup up it matches the criteria of a multi-family deal.

You may get better results by purchasing a duplex, triplex, or fourplex.Here's a guide that describes what good cash flow looks like and how to analyze a property.

This money will be used to pay down some debt I have and also purchase 1-2 additional rental properties.  

I would make sure a bundle of rights for ownership are available individually, per unit of course, then worry about warranty and purchase options.