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So, I've got a seller who has had an ongoing divorce for ~5 years. He has 2 properties that he used to rent out a couple years ago, but quit as the additional income would relinquish his benefits for his children. The...

So, I guess what I am asking today is: How do I raise capital, How do I network most efficiently, and what is the fastest possible route to gaining a property for my portfolio. 

He’s 100% onboard with this I’m just curious if this is the most efficient way to do it in terms of ease and money.

In a market that's quickly becoming saturated differentiation is key.As Phil Knight said in Shoe Dog: "When you add some new thing or service to the lives of strangers, making them happier, or healthier, or safer, or better, and when you do it all crisply and efficiently, smartly, the way everything should be done but so seldom is - you're participating more fully in the whole grand human drama.

I wouldn't worry about that part of it.I think the issue here is there's no money to be made for the investor, and therefore no motivation to buy.

Are they motivated and do they have 100,000 sitting in their bank account?

Does anyone have any tips for finding motivated apartment communities?

The deal is so small you are going to have lenders motivated to lend commercially and be alright with you taking on additional debt so you're basically looking for an equity partner willing to take on this arrangement.  

And that's why-zero motivation for the bank to make a deal).