I currently have 2 rental properties and looking to grow into larger multi family.

From all that I read on the forums Kansas City and the larger cities in Ohio provide affordable markets for OOS investors to buy a nice beginning portfolio that cash flows well.

Do a cash out refi with a hard money lender, and use the cash out proceeds as a down payment on your larger deal. 

@Ben Kappel as a general rule on larger deals (100+ units), most deals are sold "as-is".

It puts a larger strain on utilities and opens the door for arguments within the couple themselves.

Lastly, if you do decide solo wholesaling is for you, perhaps there is a larger city nearby you can do it in, rather than your small town?

That might be possible in tiny sub-markets, but doesn't sound likely for a larger market like JAX.Anyways, that's not to say inflation is not an issue.

For larger metros (like OKC), this is less of a problem. 

They serve some other very real and useful functions as well, and a lot more goes into these than any other typical marketing flier, but marketing is the core function of a preapproval letter.For cash buyers, a bank statement showing the full sales price, in United States dollars, liquid, is of course the best marketing material there is, for that buyer.Onto the question about getting preapproval for a refinance.

In a few cases when we needed a particular property to complete a land assembly as part of a larger scale redevelopment, we took the extra step of quieting title in order to protect against the possibility of any right of redemption.