My earnest money is still being held by title company and I have $$$ invested in buyer expenses. 

I told him I'd send the title company a huge wire of non refundable EM if he let me be a backup at my price in case his buyer flaked. 

I make sure my contract says, "end-buyer" pays for all closing costs.

The building would be open to so many more buyers as our market is full of people looking to invest in smaller multi families who can't quite swing the commercial financing yet... such as myself. 

Ideas of what to google: How to get started in real estate Types of real estate investing What is wholesaling real estate How do you flip a home What is buy and hold real estate Basically you can add “how to” or “what is” to any topic you are curious about and google gives you a LONG list of sources of which to learn from.

The building would be open to so many more buyers as our market is full of people looking to invest in smaller multi families who can't quite swing the commercial financing yet... such as myself. 

You basically front all this money and then hope you can sell it high enough to make a profit.

So basically I'm trying to figure out right now who I am going to receive money from to recieve pre-approval, then I'm going to learn where to find a deal and wait or move on a deal.

One advantage that stocks have over RE is that they are very liquid and can basically be sold at any time instantly.

The buy offer was made stronger because "Buyer agrees to dispose of any personal property left in the house, barns or on the property after closing".