And my current DTI is basically zero as I have no outstanding debt or living expenses right now.

Every aspect of real estate is syndicated from ATM machines, farms, to multifamily to debt funds. 

I ended up trying to do the cash for keys, offered them a set amount, offered to forgive the rent they never paid and gave them 2 weeks to move out.

One of the things I love about being a CRE investors is when the 1st of the month comes and my tenants pay down debt for me.

Some DSCR (Debt Service Coverage Ratio) loans don’t require current income, focusing instead on the projected cash flow once you rent the units and building.

In your example sell the $2 mil building (assume there's $600K of debt remaining so there are 1.4 mil in proceeds). 

Subsidized HOUSING WILL MORE THAN LIKELY GROW, yet the government will go into deeper debt to pay for it.I suspect new bonds will be created to pay for subsidies in housing. 

Yes, you can ultimately own a property with little/nothing out of pocket when you're done - but when you reposition with today's rates even moderately leveraged stabilized assets can be hard to find cashflow with debt service and a realistic operating expense load.

Now if try tailing the entity on deed "up-stream" come to find it's a meandering trail of breadcrumbs, come to find they themselves are debt loaded via notes on properties to other entity, that again is a meandering trail ending in WY entity behind a wall of ownership interest in such so never get peoples names.  

They charge $1500, get you into the door, using you to find a deal, setting up partnership to make you carry 100% debt and all the risk, while ripoff 80% ownership (include the 10% for sponsorship to get loan)You definitely can get some useful information from their event but do deal with them?