I wouldn't suggest an appraisal or inspection before speaking with the owner.

I plan to speak with an attorney about my lease agreement and will do a thorough walk through and make tenants sign and initial all parts of the lease.  

Given the metrics are very positive for rental investors, would using a realestate agent be a negative? 

@Ryan Hopkinsthanks ryan. i will speak with a lawyer . 

One of those potential buyers may have stopped negotiations with the seller hoping that no else, in this case you made an offer, once you made the offer, likely they went back to the prior offer attempting to gin it up using your offer as bait, so to speak. 

Hi Kyle, I would speak with the agent first to be respectful of everyone's time.

I look forward to connecting and speaking with the BP community.

It's a negative 70% return on all interest paid, but most likely negative 100% on your primary unless it's more than $12-24k per year. 

There are lots of stated income lenders in the commercial space so just make sure you are speaking to loan officers who deal with commercial loans and not regular conventional ones.

Last, but not least I'd suggest speaking with a securities attorney in general on the investors' topic to ensure full compliance with the laws.