So far I think the only thing I’ve paid was like a hundred bucks to my agents brokerage for some sort of service fee.

Commercial agents get cut out of deals waaaaay more than residential agents, so we need to know you're  not looking to be cheap, that you value our services and can commit to paying us.I'm not saying you haven't done all of this, but again you will be amazed at how many people want to use us to pay nothing to get everything.  

Meantime, thank you for your service.

I wanted to know if y’all know of anything good skip trace services that would get me the homeowners cell phone number and if so, what price I’ll would be looking at for the services?

I am born and raised in the area as well as my partner.

It does happen.You could use a servicing company with a wrap. 

A lot of people don't realize this is a service based industry, but one where some relative confrontation is part of the routine business.

@Dave Foster - good point@Justin Frye - my feedback is assuming the property would achieve my performance goals even with the new debt service created from of the refi

If you stop 401k contributions you can raise that 25% down payment faster and without a 10% penalty.

Inflation has been surging a bit for past 2-3 months which is a bit concern given that fed is aggressively raising the rate.