@Jeff Hines - go with a direct lender and spread that $150K over multiple properties. 

EXAMPLE: a local HC has a single comcast email address for their entire office - mysteriously, they seem to be always losing emails and asking us to resend multiple times.The good news is they finally increased their max rental amounts a few years ago, so they are now more competitive. 

My partners and I (3 of us) are based in Miami FL (not the easiest market at the moment) we are all realtors / brokers and investors, each have 20+ years of experience down here, have done multiple ground up single Family and duplex builds and currently have a portfolio of single fam and duplex properties.

Typically lenders divide up credit scores in multiple buckets with 780+ getting the best rate for some lenders while others it's 720, 740 or 760 gets the best rate pricing.

1 very common thing in Memphis is that almost ALL property is listed too high for numbers to make sense.. and if its listed at numbers that work, then it creates a multiple offer situation and investors end up paying more than they need to.

He had a client who was debating between buying a small apartment building in L.A. or spreading out capital on multiple units in Phoenix.. after running the numbers with a dedicated local realtro who actually drove around neighborhoods, he opted for Phoenix because he could get more doors for the same cost.

You have multiple properties in a great market that are wonderfully placed for appreciation in the future.

You will certainly gets lots of different perspectives from the forums and most likely multiple people will have experienced a similar situation in their investing journey!

Make sure you purchase at least as much as you sold or greater, and all of the cash you would receive from the sale.You could even reinvest into multiple investment properties if you wanted as long as you meet that requirement.

Finance was a combination of a few different vehicles and ultimately ended with a HELOC which was then used to fund multiple other projects over the years.