Wholesalers commonly enter into a purchase contract with the intention of reselling the property.

In my experience, it's fairly common to find value-add triplexes and quadplexes.- I wasn't aware of agency debt for larger properties.

Keep in mind that many lenders require a seasoning period (the most common period is 3-6 months). 

@William Merone common structures are 80/20 - 70/30 (investor/sponsor) splits with 6-8% preferred returns for investors (investors have to make this annual return before profits are shared with the sponsor.

Know what's the common practice for the area you're buying in.

A common strategy if you were to find it would be to wrap the loan, walk with a downpayment and have some positive cash flow every month as well.

Hey @Steve TotinoI think you are suffering from a common case of lack of direction.

Is this something common?

  - Keep commonly bunched forms in folders on a service like Dropbox or Google Drive. 

The surveyor made an error (although this is definitely not as common).