It's not a distressed property, excellent location and 8+ school rating, owner doesn't want to rent after current family members move out.

Matthew Tierney you can almost certainly find lower fees and excellent service by looking outside of high cost markets.

Excellent feedback above.Most commercial investors will match their debt structure with their strategy and if the plan is to hold long term, they get a long term loan instead of a 5 year bullet.  10 year fixed rate, 30 year amortization is common and you can get hybrid products that convert to a variable rate after the fixed period and have no balloon.  

Until you have 6 to 10 properties, you will find that Excel is the best program to use. 

Someone in this forum linked to a guide one done by someone for Cleveland and that was excellent, but I think I've ruled out that city for me.

Hi everyone, Thank you all for the excellent feedback! 

He has excellent credit, 750+, $4-5,000 in cash that can be used for a down payment, and a crazy low debt-to-income ratio.

Martin found an excellent space in downtown SF so I leave that up to him while I continue one down in Milpitas.

I have seen these data points in hard money lender presentations, but I don't have anything in digital form to reference.  

This is excellent material at a very reasonable price.