You need to shop around and find smaller banks and portfolio banks/lenders that will offer you their best terms.

If the question is: what are the requirements to purchase all three properties at once, you'll just have to shop around with lenders.  

I will point out that on a small build it may not be worth that money because the "test" they do is not a soil sample or boring of the land, it is a research into the property to determine if a laundry facility or auto body shop or some contaminate / polluting type of business or entity was once on that lot a long time ago.

Today I got a letter from them saying because I am doing/planning short term rental they will not extend my policy :(I am still shopping, I talked to CBIZ and haven't heard back from them?

all you need is a sheet metal shop make to your dimensions.

there are realtors that will steer away from showing properties that have lower commissions there is one who post on BP that admitted he did that and he got skewered by more than me... its a terrible practice.4. with the internet the client does all the leg work before they usually even contact a broker. they have already figured out where the best schools are,  what the crime is, how they are going to get to work.. the buyers then look at all the listings on line narrow down what they want to see then go shopping.. the day of the broker providing all this info is almost done unless you have a very un savvy client who does not know how to do google searches.

People come inside to shop.

We thought it was a great location, directly on and off the highway, walking distance to a bus line, shopping centers in close proximity, and the commuter rail to Boston minutes away.  

He's running the place like a mom and pop shop.

In our shopping for another investment property, we found a nice single-family home 3 doors down from our current house.