Now I'm considering buying a few totaling a little over 100k to get cashflow started. 

Below it it tells you to enter the total value or you can click on “provide cost breakdown “.  

I am looking for advice regarding the loan strategy.4 units in total, 1 vacancy1.

In our area they care I got caught between the new rules and it cost me a 19k fine plus the clean up of another 20k on a house that if I demo it a year before would have cost 10k or so total.. ..

Obviously Rentals will stay under pressure on not so good subdivisions.

With the recovery, an obvious value favoritism has grown for areas out this way when compared to Altamonte Springs (of course there are still high value and desirable areas in Altamonte). 

I’d be totally interested in LA meetup as well!

When I calculated at $950 rent the numbers were obviously a little less attractive.

You're totally free to walk right into a bank and ask them all the questions you want. 

So he would fund the total amount minus my down payment.What are the legal ways to do this so that I can buy 2 properties from him, he can sell them, and still use those sale proceeds (along with the sale of the other two duplexes) into a 1031 exchange into a commercial retail property?