(I worked in customer service previously, verbal judo is a required skill IMO)4) Go nuclear.

We're based in Tampa and do a lot in that area.

This step is about generating income from your investment.Refinance: Once the new properties are stabilized (occupied by tenants and generating income), look into refinancing them based on their new, improved value.

My background is custom residential, everything from large single family residences to more compact 2-4 unit projects. 50/50 mix between end-user projects and spec homes.

I too am a mortgage agent based out of Hamilton Ontario, feel free to connect to chat anytime.

His annual compliance report is clean he says.Owner had his Coam taken away and is the single owner running the show, an hour away from his home base. 

They wouldn't have done an appraisal, it would have been just negotiated based upon where the buyer thought they could make money.

I tried to vet his community and it seems pretty legit based on what I was able to uncover and through questions I ask him and the onboarding coordinator, but I have trouble justifying the high price tag for something that seems sort of plausible on my own, yet he makes some valid points on how long some of these things would take on my own without the community.

If money is an issue for getting more properties, then find partners, or the seller finance thing, or start a pool for the down payment and go thru asset based lenders (that's my next play)...Having said that, as of Dec 1, I'll be managing my own STR since I'm firing my property manager.

Lawyers participate in the real estate sale process as a matter of custom and practice.