Any creative ways that help make you stand out? 

I initially started with a list of 50 cities and narrowed it down systematically :-) Do any of those stand out to you in particular?

Construction went from 8 weeks to 14 weeks due to a variety of reasons; main one being that I let the wrong person lead the project on the ground level, which ended up leaving things at a stand-still a week here and a week there, and those weeks and days of doing nothing adds up fast! 

In addition to the financials, you also need local area occpancy rates, local CAP rates, etc.Are they giving you any information (e.g.

We are trying to structure the deal financially based on each members contributions. 

While Arena calls his critics retrograde and implies racism (many of whom probably are), I personally find it understandable on a financial/psychological level that empathy diminishes when an event like that stands to decrease the value of the biggest investment (a home) you're likely to make in your life. 

I’m a married father of three (all under 5 yrs) with a good job and a spouse who likes the idea of financial freedom but is risk averse when it comes to investing.  

So, with that being said, by 32 I'm looking to create enough cash flow through buy and hold (SFH & Multi) and potentially house hacking to be financially free (not retired). 

I'm not privy to all their financial details so I can't really go into it much more than that.

The seller likely stands to lose much more than you do if you walk... make em fix it, but don't think for one second a smoker is going to "stop" smoking no matter what a piece of paper says.