I would ask a couple lenders or brokers to send you some estimates with ZERO upfront fees to compare.  

It is ALSO coupled with immigrants coming over through refugee services as we are one of a select number of "cities" elected by the powers-to-be as such.   

This is important because I believe we are getting ready to enter a round of foreclosures and we want to be in a position to pick up prettier properties than we purchased last go round.We are also working on converting our PM business into a franchised brand with Property Management Inc, that has a support structure not only for residential rentals, but also for short term, commercial, and association managment.  

Here in Chicago I made a mistake on a close and forgot a couple of things and so expecting a certain profit and getting less is very disappointing.

I shopped a couple rates from hard money lenders in my home state and selected the best rates for this pending deal.

The road is maybe one and a half car lengths wide and is kind of the gully between a couple hills with no drainage and water run off next to or down the road.  

I’ve got a couple properties under contract with them.

It does that on this and a couple other forums all the time, making some of my sentences hard to read.

I have a couple of LLCs with like 3 or 4 properties each in them.

I'm a former CPA, so I track every line item in exhaustive detail and had a couple of good lessons learned.