You want an accountant who can help you strategize and who is responsive when you want to know the consequences of the financial decisions you are making throughout the year.Good luck.

You will be way ahead of the curve.Your video production skills will be your biggest asset to trade for experience and you need to keep this in mind.

I advise to leverage your current skills to work in other trades and get into real estate investing once you're ready.

Something like co-hosting STRs, real estate photography or video (including drone), something in the trades if you have those skills, part time agent, etc.

Contact the Federal Trade Commission and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. 

Mortgage rates are driven by the capital market and basically follow the bond market, specifically 10 year US treasury with a premium, historically about 1,7%.Yesterday the 10yT fell to 3.9% and I have seen 5.99% 30y fixed rates with a local bank in here Milwaukee (that is still an inflated 2% premium), so 5.7% would be historically normal based on a 1.7% premium, even without the 10YT going any lower.Here is why.If the 10yT offers lower returns, more investors want to buy mortgage-backed securities instead to get higher returns (about 1.7% higher), as a consequence lowering the returns on those as well.

You offer him $200k made up of the $50k land lot in trade subject to the existing $150k mortgage.  

Yes, but the trade off is worth it.

I've been an entrepreneur for about 15 years now and since my first adventure as a entrepreneur was in a construction related trade, I consider myself very handy and somehow capable to deal with contractors.

There are consequences for our government decisions and a lot of current policy and national sentiment continues to be inflationary (tighter immigration, high tariffs, wars, nationalism/isolationism, child tax credits, student loan forbearance, high government spending/deficits).