These thriving city centers also offer urbanites the ability to live, work, shop and entertain in close proximity, satisfying their desire for shorter commutes and greater walkability.

We work heavily with investors in the Southern CA and Central CA markets and have the ability to provide you with such deals.  

The agents also have more commission to bargain with if the sale is tight and needs some additional price incentive.One other great advantage of having a good RE agent is the ability to leverage their professional relationships to help find/close deals.  

However I've done the math, I know there is an ability to add spot lights to the big common parking area (with garage space for each unit!)

What homework have you done, and what skills and abilities do you think you have to offer that will make your endeavor successful, and thus worth someone lending you money? 

MFR values stay more consistent and offer you the ability to cash flow a lot more when you leave, then the condo.  

This is impacting my ability to obtain more properties.

He does not necessarily want to be a full-time contractor for hire at this point because we have a young son and he needs to have some flexibility in his schedule as my job requires a fair amount of international travel.Our plan is to focus primarily on fix and flip properties for the near term to capitalize on his abilities.

Managing the manager is necessary, but don't give up your ability to visit your properties because of your geographic location.

I have the ability to pull loans out against my retirement and I am currently awaiting one to be paid off so I can take out another, which should be around 20K.