There is a free market of buying/selling properties and values go up and down based on offer/demand principles and what you can rent them for.

While his weekend seminars cost ~$200, they are a good way to quickly meet other like-minded investors and also get a sense for the basics of multifamily investment principles.  

At that point it will have been his principle property for 2 years making all growth tax free. 

The number 2750 includes taxes, insurance, pmi, principle and interest.

Plus you pay down, what, $10K in principle each year.

Some of the payment goes towards paying down the principle; some goes towards interest.

This would allow me to throw a large chunk of cash at the principle in turn decreasing monthly payments, reducing the amount of interest paid, and ultimately allowing the property to have better cash flow margins as a rental.

Yes, I realized shortly after posting that I made a silly mistake in calculating the principle as a saving when even if I was to keep the property financed I would be capturing that principle through rent.

The CRE guys typically have more lending authority and you may not have to go through loan committee if you're talking to the right guys/gals.I am a reformed CRE investor leveraging my long time relationships so YMMV but the underlying principles should apply.  

I have a finance degree and some of those principles have transferred over to real estate quite nicely.