Of course best advice is to speak to an attorney, but I wouldn't overthink this one. 

Generally speaking there are 2 main types of loans for investors: “Conventional” and “Portfolio”Conventional - I'll define these as loans that come from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (if you recognize those names).

My pick would be Mammoth out of all of them, there are a good amount of options in SoCal (some are getting tighter as we speak on the regs though).

If you are speaking of the 29 Apr-1 May event, I signed up as well. 

Call the local planning and development office at the city/county and ask to speak with the director.

I had to speak with the seller multiple times before meeting in person to get the purchase agreement signed.

You should speak with a 1031 exchange specialist like @Dave Foster to get the particulars on that situation.

Hoping to speak with anyone who has purchased in San Antonio recently.

I have contacts/friends in the space) or even recently been speaking to some commercial contacts about warehousing/industrial investments.  

I know someone that does SBA lending and may be willing to speak with him about it.