@Aurelien BoninRead Gene Trowbridge's book "It's a Whole New Business" to start, it's a a great foundation and starting pointNeed to be working on your database of potential investors if you haven't already.

If you don't you will not only enable him, but your good paying tenant will soon think that he/she can also stay in your property for free.

I work with buyers exclusively and my proprietary database built over 16 years to find the diamonds.Are you paying all cash at 2 million?

If you do not have any MLS access just check out the property card online (most cities/towns have databases) and you will be able to see when it last sold and for how much.

I'm hoping that by registering as a finance company it will also enable me to register as a loan originator, but I have a lot of research to do!

This enables you to defer the payment of your ordinary income, capital gain, depreciation recapture and/or Medicare Surcharge (“Obamacare”) income tax liabilities.When you completes a 1031 exchange you carry over the basic from the relinquished property to the replacement property.

Each half has it's own listing in the county database and both say "Property Type: Residential"I've seen some references to residential being "1-4 living units" (which wouldn't include the office) and I haven't found the actual HUD wording on the subject.  

Brett, see if you can go to the tax assessors for Smithfield and neighboring towns (Smithfield, North Smithfield, Lincoln, North Providence, Johnston, Glocester) and ask if they will give you a printout of properties zoned commercial (or industrial - describe what your client wants to use the site for and let them decide what the zone should be), and with a minimum building are of 20,000 sf.You will need to go in person and be super nice (always a good idea in city/town halls) and IF they can do it (I would not expect all or even most will), and they will probably charge you either a flat fee or (more likely) a $/per-page amount.Alternately, if that fails, then you can try to get the same information from a list broker (commercial/industrial properties 20,000+sf building area); there are many list brokers of varying quality, just search Bigger Pockets forums and I'm sure a TON will come up.Once you have your list, go through them (using the tax assessor databases - see RIPropInfo.com for a list of links) to eliminate the unsuitable ones, then take what's left and either call (if you can get a name/number - try using the corporate database link at the bottom of the RIPropInfo site) or send direct mail.It would be a lot of effort, and the chances of hitting something are slim, but if you can double-end the listing it might be worth it.

I think if I capture their criteria accurately in my database then I won't even need to spam a "buyers list" with properties that don't match up to everyone's criteria.  

The department of insurance likely keeps a database of people who hold licenses there.