We are returning from a trip in Alaska.

If I could get my hands on that money and buy an expensive comic book or a piece of jewelry or a trip to the Bahamas, then it's cash to me.Good Luck!

"the residential property may not consist of more that four family units AND ONE BUSINESS unit except in the case of certain joint loans"With mixed use, which also in theory can go FHA in some cases, the appraisal report is going to come back revealing that the real estate agents lied to you about the building and its characteristics, causing you to say "yes" (based on bad information) when you should have firmly said "no" upfront, and then the Realtors are going to throw you under the bus and say that you suck and it's your fault (that they misrepresented the property to you...).

Sort of related to Question 3, but were you able to take a trip to a different state or country just to sightsee?

I will make a trip out there soon!

I may just make a trip out to Vegas and take Mayweather at -800. 

That's two round trip tickets, two car rentals, two long-weekend hotel stays, etc.  

No leasing fee to the owner, no vacancy fee, trip charge fee, ect.

I hope you at least made a side trip over there while you lived in Australia!

I've been lucky so far in that most of them just want me to come down and drop off a Freedom of Info form and then they'll just hold them for me once they're printed out so I can make one trip around my county to drop off all the forms then one more once they're all ready to pick them all up, bit more difficult than I think it has to be though (Damn you Rebogateway for not having the info available for CT).