Seems like your experience as a title agent will be a huge benefit as you continue on this journey - and you'll be a great addition to the forums with that expertise!

I realize I can just wait it out and cashflow nicely, but I'd like to get the ball rolling on additional properties here at the beginning (happy to hear arguments for/against that too, btw).The solution I was thinking of was to do some sort of intermediate loan with private money until the 6 month period is over and then go with traditional lending at that time. 

In addition, I see two thing looking at your analysis. 

In addition, short sales are "as is" so an inspection is for my purpose and my lendor only.

I've bought, sold, and hold multiple SFR in addition to these commercial units.

I will be building out my back of house and adding a laundry room addition on the back of the house. 

The conversation was a bit more detailed than that as i talked about market rent range etc and they had additional questions.

You would still get to deduct the interest related to 450 k loan against your rental income. 2) The additional loan that you will take when you take out 750k in equity is what you will have to decide.

By planting these fixed seeds that are and continue to pay dividend, it stabilized my income flows and concurrently allowed me to build up reserves for additional purchases. 

Additionally, baked in the numbers you mentioned like price-to-rent is an assumption about cash flow, but how would you go about analyzing an entire market for cash flow?