You also Google for hard money lenders, or even utilize Connected Investor to find hard money lenders.

(maybe they've been thinking about selling due to under utilization?)

Or the Block Industries case from the Summer of 2017 where the Tax Court unraveled a “Magical Options Contracts Make Roth IRA Instantly Huge” scheme.

The industry is changing, and folks who work in real estate need to offer more than opening lock boxes and filling out forms.

We use MINT.com, which is nice.According to MINT, what is largely dragging our credit score down (it's a 758) is credit utilization.That's a few credit cards here and there but predominantly our HELOC is 60% utilized and bringing up our total credit utilization up over 40%.I'm under the understanding that many people use HELOCs as a great way to pull out equity from their primary residence.I don't understand why one would be penalized from having a stronger equity position in their primary residence?

Good way to learn about real estate and get some aspect of the industry under your belt.

Depends on the site and the utilities available. 

What is the maximum you should pay for it in order for the numbers to make sense, or what's an industry standard?

This might be fantastical to take on so I'm very interested in your thoughts.Brief BackgroundI am looking for advice to utilize creative financing for the transition of a huge single family Victorian into a multifamily to hold.

If you need to inspect units in an apartment building that will have to be arranged with the property manager and tenants, if you just need to check out the HVAC of an industrial property, that's usually a bit simpler to arrange.