In other words, the more searching, crunching, and offering I do, the more good deals I would be likely to encounter and have an opportunity close on.

Taken all together this would be a total compensation package of $1,184,000 for both properties.

My suggestion is to put a package together with all the details, showing it to be a great deal, and take that to multiple lenders.  

I've got experience managing rentals, but I've never encountered no RA's because we've always had tenants sign.

When you have only a hand full of properties all this does not sound like a big deal, because your excitement and enthusiasm carries you right through any obstacle you encounter, but what happens if you have 10 or 50 or 100 - and they are all in different places?

BUT, 1) give it 3 days to acclimate inside your warm rental 2) be sure to OPEN the box so air can get to the planks while they are acclimating3) if you encounter not-so-stick splices, add adhesive.

I encountered him after my realtor, with over 20 years experience, never took the initiative to get a NAID number!  

I don't mean the big package houses.

be careful, its not all what it seems to be, I signed up for 28 000 package and was three days late to cancel and they refuse to refund the money, I had to go true my credit card and get a refund. it was very stressful, as at first I was going to come back and do it at the later date, but now I will never do this again, major rip off.  

A HML is intended to be transactional and would not loan over a long term like that (at least none that I've ever encountered) If you had a great relationship with your HML they may be willing to make your case to some of their investors to do a private mortgage, but again I've not heard of that before, but again there are no rules saying you couldn't try and do it.As for private money, it's a matter of figuring out what would work for you to make this deal close, and what works for your investor.