I appreciate your offer and will likely take you up on your offer to help. 

By following this practice I was up 3 percent from the previous year.

You can also ask for a 'Seller Credit" which helps cover closing costs or buy the rate down if you come in high enough on the purchase offer.

Third, as suggested, there may now be restrictions on double closes in some states.The most innovative way to wholesale is with disposable LLC's, where you create LLC's for the purposes of making offers under.

I am new to investing in San Antonio and just made an offer on a 4-plex.

It should give you pause that a sub-100k duplex is hard to sell, while 300k duplexes receive 15 offers in 24 hours.

I had been investing for a while when I read it and still found a lot of practical advice. 

Or new building practices?

Most lenders will do a hard credit pull before presenting a formalized term sheet, but that is after a property is under contract and your offer is accepted/you submit a full application and send in a credit authorization. 20% down with no STR experience is pretty normal on the market, but you will likely be using a haircut AirDNA projection instead of the full 100% to qualify you. 

Offer to cover 3% of closing costs since you’re saving that in realtors fees.