Real Estate is the business of interactions with people. 

Please share any helpful resources, your personal experiences, and what you have found to be valuable with every transaction.

Would help if you stated what questions you had so people could reply right away.I have knowledge on HELOANs but not direct experience.

We had to move fast and initially decided to sell it, the relator who was helping us somehow convinced us we should make it a rental property......... and let her be our tenant (insert face palm here) so since we had no real estate experience and we were already moved away, we agreed.

Purchase and rehab properties will have a similar reduction, but as long as you have experience within the US, you should still be able to get some pretty good terms.

Since you are doing new construction I would suggest making them private enough where guest have minimal interaction with each other.

Before it was primarily retirees who were really looking for the social interaction with owners and other guests. 

I'm closing on a 74k sq ft (5 warehouses) Class B Industrial facility this week.  This is the largest Adaptive Reuse project that I've taken on.  Each of the 5 warehouses on this campus will require updates (construct...

@Aubrey Eblin Thank you very much for sharing your experience with the Rent To Retirement Academy. 

Again, the BiggerPockets store has some books on this topic, or you can learn about it by watching podcasts, reading blogs, and interacting on the forum.