These “care gaps” describe the changing trend that fewer family members are available to provide primary support to their loved ones, which further accelerates the need for competitive alternatives to the “big-box” institutional style housing facility. 

I know many self employed that purchased at a young age but they did so through non standard lending institutions.  

A few suggestions I would throw out from my perspective are as follows:For beginners, You can check out the American Institute of Architects organizationhttp://www.aia.org/ .

Can you find an institutional tenant like a group home or similar.

These are institutional investors, they aren’t going to sell 10% below market value because you calledThem out of the blue.

Are there bank/institutions that anyone has worked with that will have less fees and we can get 75% cash out?

In fact, most private institutions haven't figured this out yet either but there is a very small subset of private institutional lenders that have what we call in our office "NO-DSCR" loan products.

Cyrus,the Urban Land Institute and Price Waterhouse coopers has compiled an extensive study on real estate markets for the past 30 years.

Lots of institutional money buying these commercial assets. 

Do you possibly know any other banks/institutions that may give good deals and conditions to us?