Enabling me to get to the $500 easier and also take out more money when needed. 

Another point to think about is that if you can 2-3x your 1M in the next 5 yrs, that could enable you to buy a 10MM property by yourself.

The use of technology available to all of us enables remote service.

However, the risk is that you don't get the maximum price because it was never exposed to the maximum potential of buyers in the general public.However, if we assume that you have a set price in advance, if an agent has a database of eager buyers waiting for your next project to finish, the agent is doing you a favor to lock in your business by bringing you the right buyer and saving you a few percentages off the commission by handling both sides of the transaction.

They know they play to win, so they rest as is needed to enable that.Finally, the solider trains and rests in a way to build the skills necessary to thrive during wartime. 

I know your question was in regards to conventional, but there are several other avenues with various requirements that could enable you to get a loan with down payment <5%.

I've done the math and after he takes care of the taxes this would result in us paying about $35,000 total for the house, or $11,000 more than what we were going to pay, but it would enable us to get the house.

Context (Looking to buy/syndicate MF properties with retail mgmt in place and at the same time dont want to take on a risk for 5% or 6% CAP rate ...so pulling data to identify pockets.. which may or may not happen) : 1) Pulled Census data base where we could segment Cities by Population/Growth Rate/Unemployment Rate from 2013-2017.

Brookfield’s new fund, for example, purchased the two-thirds stake in mall giant GGP Inc. that Brookfield didn’t already own.Brookfield’s scale enables it to get returns “you simply can’t get if you’re an individual investor buying an individual mall,” said Brian Kingston, chief executive of Brookfield’s real-estate arm.Blackstone’s global co-head of real estate, Kenneth Caplan, who declined to comment on the fundraising, said markets are fickle and whether or not there are opportunities to buy “can change pretty quickly.”Some funds are setting less ambitious fundraising targets.

And when/if they start to scale (and/or the economy takes a hit), the market for low cost passive capital will change and investors will want to have wealthy sophisticated investors in their database.