Makes sense if you know what you're doing and have scaled up but your condition sounds difficult to talk to sellers so creative thinking may be in order? 

If the landlord is sitting vacant, they are usually much happier to be creative.

Any other creative financing ideas I could use?

There's still plenty of opportunity around here for those willing to be creative, but super challenging and lots of competition for what opportunities do exist.

I'm going to have to get creative.

I think there's lots of creative things your could do to make some additional $$ too.

But if you get creative/clever like Chris is suggesting, then go with his advice as far as how to maybe pull it off.

Walk away from the deal (really don't want to do this but may have to....)Any other creative ideas? 

This could have been achieved with creative finance: but not with a conventional loan and more than likely not without a partner.Recommend these secured credit cards:-Citi-Discover (offers rewards)-Capital OneUse automatic payments on the full balance and only utilize 30 percent of your card limit; 10 percent is optimal.

Borrowing from friends and family and going into my 401k I might be able to rustle up 30-40k but that's a long shot for even HUD multifamily financing...Would anyone have any insight on how to get partners or have creative financing strategies for me?