As long as the property you currently own is strictly an investment property, you may be able to do something called cross collaterilize to that existing property because of the amount of equity you have when you go to buy another one.

I notified the tenant that its crossing into the next month. 

Fingers crossed!

A pleasure to meet you, Clay, I hope our professional paths cross in the future.

The bottom 2 acres has a garage and a pole barn, all hooked up with electricity and water.A commercial pool company is renting out the whole property currently but from an aerial view it looks like you could fit about 24 houses (easily viewable since they border the west fence line) inside this area.

My goal is to purchase a property, or at the very least, have an accepted offer by end of year (fingers crossed).Please let me know if there is anything I can elaborate on as well.Cheers,Nate

Would I be better served looking for a lender in NJ or is this cross-country lending commonplace? 

If you decide to cross the border to AZ, I work with a lot of California peeps!

The asset classes are too different for a lender to cross collateralize and have a reliable takeout.

Which seems reasonable.None of them are going to cross post your listing at this time.