A friend had a company come in and they wanted to do a bunch of narrower (but functional) cabinets-it was a lot more expensive to do the smaller ones.

Because seven million of them already exist on BP, and if the poster took 15 minutes to use the magical search function, they can get their answers. 

Or is it more a function of longevity and building up direct bookings over years and years?

Think it is too small to grab it and may turn into some type of functional obsolescence if you make it a bedroom then someone (or other people) will have to make it into something else.

Some of the younger mindset functions out of a get rich quick bitcoin mindset.

I believe you can do a conventional cash out refi with your ownership interest functioning as the down payment.

I see many people starting out in the industry with very unrealistic expectations that drive them to take action, which is completely normal and that’s how most humans function.

And most are not ponzi schemes.Per the SEC and FINRA, some typical signs of a Ponzi scheme are promises of outsized returns (which is necessary to have a Ponzi scheme function since it needs a constant flow of new investors to avoid collapse), promises of impossible things like guaranteed returns and/or failure to disclose the true risk of an investment (to make the claimed high returns seem more plausible), etc.

Our local teams were created to work together, but this handoff from Renovation to Leasing was contentious even with our most functional teams.

It almost always solves the problem if the fan is functional.