Diversifying large office and parking portfolio How did you find this deal and how did you negotiate it?

Downtown and surrounding neighborhoods will get you younger professionals working the hospitals/office buildings, Out by UCF-students, near Disney-roommates sharing a condo.

What I had found out was that someone in the same CBRE office was involved in those deals and some of the initial parties interested decided to build over there. 

A better approach might be to find a REI Association in the area(s) and ask other investors for their recommendations - it's not uncommon to choose a different appraiser depending on the type of property (residential vs commercial MFH vs. office or industrial) and the objective of the appraisal.

Send it to a loan officer you know to see if it is legit.In the meantime, I would recommend going to the open market.

The "big" firms like AA may get a lot of hype but they generally can't compete on the next level tax strategies (Family office type strategies) nor customer service as their employee turnover is quite high.  

I have tried to reach out to Beckstone since, but the office number is answered by a service that takes messages, but calls do not get returned.

Rangely,I agree I am in Florida as well and have an office in Miami and Tampa.

we use post office for a virtual address, of course they do not have conference rooms, but not sure they need to be one in the same, I would look into some co-working space or speak to some real estaet agents etc and see if you can use their space.

You can act as your own RA, but unless you have an office separate form your home, I probably would just pay someone to do it.