And I would hope any skills I learn, whether in commercial or in the SFR/multi-family realm, can translate into each other.I'm very impressed (and a bit intimidated) by your history and and work with Colliers International! 

@Jim Growfer Please please please, don't go taking OPM until you understand the fundamentals down tot the smallest atom.

They "over-book," and deny "overflow" loans at the 11th hour 3 days before CTC, they're only actually funding the sexiest loans, according to their internal non-transparent criteria (maybe they are looking at something like median income trends in that zip code for the last 10 years, just to pick something it wouldn't even typically occur to you to check for).

I called building codes and informed them of this and they said they use the IBC, International Building Codes.

I understand that when calculating either Net Present Value (NPV) or Internal Rate of Return (IRR), one must include the operating cash flow of each year.

Even then they can take a while.Many times the lender will get dinged if they accept a price too low (looks bad internally) yet there is not a whole lot of damage to careers if they are slow to decide.

Our long history and international sources allows us means to financing and banking activities that a typical US citizen would not be privy to.

I was mainly going to look at students (national and international) as they would be the easiest to maintain I think.

What doesn't help the situation (for buyers like ourselves) is that most of the [good] turnkey providers sell in big bulk to international buyers who are willing to pay top dollar and all in cash.

I like it and it's perfect until I get my internal sales team up to speed.