I have, on multiple occasions, asked my clients to lower their offer price, and they have gotten into contract on those homes! 

Understand baylor caps how many students they admit, but they keep building apartments.When I was there I saw multiple signs that said something like 2 months free rent which means there’s likely more supply than demand.

Typically you get more rental income per dollar spent (at least in my market), plus you would gain some efficiency with multiple units in a single location.

Some quick points:FHA is great for buying properties that have multiple units (up to 4) when you're going to live in one.You can do either a 203K renovation loan or regular FHA insured loan.FHA is not only for first time home buyers.  

The best and fastest way to get your answer is to talk to multiple property tax protest firms, you might be able to fish for your answer or at least you could hire them and they can take care of it for you.

Additionally, if I can use the funds for multiple deals that make sense, I would be open to that as well.

In fact, I would just include a line item in my project budget as a cost to the project.From your perspective, I'm not sure how sustainable charging only $69 to $99 / month is for unlimited design services especially for clients that are doing several flips per month.   

If the deal size you are buying in is too small to get optimal loan terms you may want to partner on a larger deal where multiple lenders will compete to fund it.  

Two other people and myself are looking to buy our first rental property together and are trying to determine the best structure to set up the agreement (such as an LLC).  We are looking to purchase in the Memphis are...

Even though the deal makes sense from a numbers perspective, does not mean it is automatically going to be rented and or sold.