I'm just hoping for a new motivated seller to show up.

You will certainly have a lot more responses from people who do that sort of thing in that forum. 

Following the sage wisdom of David Greene, our plan is to establish a "Core 4" team in a few different markets and develop those into profitable business relationships.As we've just started on this path, any advice is welcome, and anyone interested in working with motivated fledgling investors, please feel free to reach out!

Let's say that the self sufficiency test is off by 5% in rents after it is appraised, but in order to satisfy this there is some sort of proportion down that could help this, IE, instead of 3.5% down they'd require 4.5% down? 

If this is "typical", then you just need to sort it out. if this is completely out of the norm, I would move on to the next applicant.Good luck. 

The "best" way lies within your 2 loan options here and there are a lot of rules to this sort of thing. 

Did you put a down payment of any sort while purchasing this home?

At some point, when you start value your time, you'll become very picky how to invest your time.Time is more valuable than money because you never make more time.Just learn how to sort out and don't waste your time on something not worthy.Until you know the difference, all that is the experience 

But with The Villages being out past Leesburg and closer to Ocala than it is to Orlando, it sort of becomes it's own isolated market. 

Surely if I'm saving by going private there must be some sort of trade off, no?