One time at one of his events they recommended attending a local church and finding people through the church community, which I thought was a great idea. 

In any event, my intention is never to hurt anyone...I hope that was conveyed.And if you are just making a funny...then I get it.I have a couple of friends that are obsessed with their own butts too.

Does utilizing a 203(k) and building the renovation costs into the loan limit the potential upside equity with the ARV in any way as opposed to funding the renovation with cash or another method? 

The first being that the shorter the hold period the higher the IRR and the velocity of money is increased.The second is that the majority of a sponsors compensation comes after a capital event (sale/refi) when they get into the "promote" or carried interest. 

I am in the Seattle Market, it’s a very very difficult market for Multi-family as a somewhat rookie,  I am looking for something with a higher cap rate of 3.95%.Regarding agents,  since I have done this, I know it really depends, but it just feels like they hit you on the auto-search, and are going to be in it for their beat interests as opposed to yours. 

Not only that but since you are making a relationship with this person & therefore can likely negotiate payment terms as opposed to a monthly fee. in Short, i think you'll be more of a customer at legal zoom & it'll be harder to form the necessary relationships needed when investing through their service. 

And in any event, because multi-family data is found in less quantity and quality than would be ideal (far from it in your case) an appraisal of such properties will always be weak.Here is my advice for the future - ignore almost everything in the appraisal with exception to two things.

My reasoning - my cash can constantly be at work in the aforementioned portfolio (as opposed to a money market type of account), but I still have access to 60-70% of the cash to continue flipping a couple houses at time.  

I will take a look at events near me and try to attend a few.

They hold monthly investor meetups and offer tremendous value to everyone involved. https://rarebirdinvestors.com/You can head to the events page (Network > events) and search Portland and you will find a slew of events!