Otherwise, it's just panhandling, "I have nothing to offer but will you help me buy an apartment building?"

Eventually you'll want one if you keep buying more rentals.

It is, because in the end people let you down and over promise and under deliver and to tell you the truth cause I've dealt with so many now, some agents are very good and they listen as to what your buy box is and they provide comps and an ARV analysis and other agents aren't willing to do sh!

Did you have an inspection done during the buying process?

When I got involved in notes I started with doing more deals - i was buying lower priced assets and choosing quantity over quality which was "risky" but I did very well and learned a ton.

My partner and I used hard money to buy property and have about 180k in house so far.

That would be very typical work an investor would do when they buy a tax sale property.

So then basically you are buying the land for 400k, then demo (whatever that cost is) and the build new. 

Pay for your buy through normal loans, big bank loans, small loan options, or a mix of loan types.

An obvious solution is to buy properties that have a market rent of $1550!