It is secured with  👇 Controlled Interest: We include our investors as a 51% controlling interest member on the borrower’s operating agreement.

That's why I posted, to provide people with real advice based on my experiences so they can avoid making the same mistakes.Providing greater buffer space for capital expenditures and controls is a good risk management strategy.

So, using the PA court systems public website has been more accurate than any service for these local applicants.

But the one thing that you can control is your creativity and how far are you willing to go with risk .

Greater control of the timeline.  

This is why the big corp builders or regionals control so much of the larger developmentsthe deals i funded are 34 lots 160 lots and 80 lots respectively and each of them have contracts on them by Toll and Lennar and one regional but they only close when we have permits in hand. 

Insurance is suddenly dropping me due to the buildings not having a sprinkler system.

Keep all the hard systems on a 6 month service schedule.

Only thing you can control is price and making sure the home is prepped and shows well. 

North Canton is a mess right now, they outsourced their building department and went way off the deep end with controls and penalties.