Since you generally won't know for sure when a party will end, you can try to protect yourself when entering the party by buying into the type of property investment that will suffer less should the party come to an end.

It may sound funny to pay a 1031 exchange service to simply receive money for you and spend it for you, but it is essential. 

I recently sold a house and they had a home inspection and they came back with a list and I simply told the buyers , No to any price reduction or the "repairs" .

Or is this simply the appetite for commercial loans currently?  

You did the hardest thing, which is simply buying that first one.I may be biased (no, I'm definitely biased) but @Erin Spradlin is kind of what you're looking for in terms of hand-holding.

I'd love to utilize their expertise when assessing a property since they are local but I'm not sure what the general expectation is when I don't have a tangible property and I have not entered into contract to work with them yet.Some questions I have are: local regulations/permitting timeline, property's potential from their perspective, landscaping/amenities cost estimate (they also help facilitate this).

The best thing we have seen work is to simply tell the potential members that Co-living is not for everyone up front. 

This time i want to enter into multi-family investing and looking for some tips.

Quote from @Devin James: Quote from @Jay Hinrichs: for us we do very little marketing we rely on MLS what we do to compete is spend an extra 10k or so per house with upgrades other builders simply wont do..

Based on your responses, you are trying to find a creative way to enter the arena.