If you have a truly superior and/or unique product it will be easier to not have to compete with price. 

Flipping is a production business.

For the most part, most lenders are going to be relatively close in cost assuming we are talking about a straight forward loan product, we all borrower from the same pool of money to make these loans. 

The idea is the product of an ah-ha moment late Friday afternoon as I was scrambling to put the pieces of this puzzle back together.

When I made my earnest money deposit, in Oct, I was told production would be in 2022 and completed by 2023.

You don't provide enough data to know.Every product is only worth what you are willing to pay for it. 

Curious how this will play out in the courts (granted it's LTR) and affect pricing products used for STR such as PriceLabs (which I use but have to seriously manually adjust for very specific reasons).

A 1031 exchange allows you to defer taxes by exchanging real property held for productive use in a trade or business or for investment for other real property of like kind, which is also to be held for similar purposes.

@Dennis KnappJ Scotts book on estimating rehab costs is a great start. https://store.biggerpockets.com/products/the-book-on-estimat...Here is a "general" rule of thumb for my market in Jacksonville, FL.

All programs have LLPAs but that's more so any bank's individual guidelines and overlays to specific product pricing.