We approached the existing lender for a loan assumption.

There are some amazing physician loans available that can allow you to purchase a owner occupied single family property with 0% down. 

It cashflows like crazy as is, you take out a tax free loan of $1.2M give or take, you leave it to your heirs when you die and they pay zero taxes. 

I can likely do this loan, but in all fairness, with this type of loan I suspect a community bank is going to beat me out.

They asked me to empty my savings, max out cards and then finally to take out a loan.

Doing so will seperate your investments from your personal assets and protect you from liability. also, one thing you may not know is that you cannot get a conventional loan with an LLC.

SLS and Lakeview manage troubled loans. 

They couldn't get a construction loan and were constantly blaming the cities being tough on their permit process.

On October 31st Blue Metrix reached back out and said they weren't going to pay off the loan unless they got a greater discount.

Hey @Mike Levene, I'd recommend considering a Margin Loan against your stock portfolio.