If you don't want to respond to your direct messages, that is entirely up to you, but discouraging people from asking questions goes against all that BiggerPockets stands for. 

If anyone has used both, I would love to have any feedback on both platforms, the do's and don'ts, or even thoughts on pricing of these type of platforms. 

I have cash I can throw in as well, but would like to let the property stand on its own.

Also, you may stand a better chance of collecting what is owed if you use the lawyer.

Is there a bank that stands out as business friendly?

Each deal should stand on its own regardless of who is selling it.

Stand behind your placement choice.Triage repair requests so you don't send out the plumber or Maytag Man without reason.

You can look at it two ways, building of big apartment buildings means that the town is due for growth and will be drawing in a lot of renters and you may be able to charge a good rent, not everyone wants to live in big buildings and would rather rent smaller places but be by everything. the other way to look is that the market will be over saturated with rentals and yours would need to stand out, how do you market it, do you lower rent to draw the people or do you fix it up and heavily advertise it to try and stand out. i think if you invest in those areas you need to upgrade and advertise, appeal the class of people they are trying to draw to the area, may be worth finding out who the developer is and asking them what market they are targeting, if they will share with you that info.

There is the parking lot on Elem St and it looks like you can park on the top level overnight. 

As it stands, this is not a good candidate, in my opinion, for obtaining the deed.