This lets them concentrate their proceeds as much as possible and lessens the number of properties they have to buy to satisfy the 1031 exchange. 

Seems to me that they are in competition for my business, or should I concentrate on building more of a personal report with a small few lenders? 

Your time and effort are best concentrated on either finding more properties or optimizing your current house hack. 

They tell me this is due to Fannie Mae changing their portfolio concentration on investment properties and they are trying to push people away.

Like best areas to concentrate search on and reliable property managers maybe someone here has used.Thanks in advance

You get to come in to a business that's running and already profitable and concentrate on growing it.Buying opportunities are everywhere right now as business-owning baby boomers are hitting retirement age in droves. 

Jonathan, thank you for the reply.5 - 20  door commercial properties is the type of mf  I will concentrate on ( b and c class). 

I would concentrate on getting the unit rent ready.

I believe that in 5 years, with hard and concentrated work, someone can set themselves up financial forever.

In mathematical statistics, such advice is considered the "Survivorship Bias" logical error.Wikipedia says: "Survivorship Bias is the logical error of concentrating on the people or things that made it past some selection process and overlooking those that did not, typically because of their lack of visibility.