As I develop trust and confidence in them, I invest more, and I've come to have a significant portion of my net worth invested with some operators. 

So they started doing the loans that everyone else turned down, ultra high risk development deals, second mortgages, land loans at ridiculously high LTV, loans where the borrower has none of his own capital invested, 85% of AFTER stabilized value loans.  

Yet you can't debate the basis of my argument on why this is not an ideal model.

Purchase price: $2,900,000 Country Glamping and Development LLC acquired 776 acres for a project called Country Glamping on the River, LLC.This is Rawland/Off-Grid/Glamping/STR and Owner Financing for Lot Owners that want an Oasis Get-A-Way and Glamping ROI development on the TN River.you can see the Project: www.CountryGlampingontheRiver.com What made you interested in investing in this type of deal?

Originally posted by @Kelly Watkins:Residential developers in Wichita pass the cost of the neighborhood utilities (sewers, streets etc..) onto the buyer.

I liked real estate so I got licensed, worked on a bunch of different RE strategies, started developing and managed to get myself stretched thin very quickly again, I basically made the pendulum swing way too far and had to consolidate again to find my path.

@Keegan FelixKansas City and Cleveland are ideal for new real estate investors seeking affordable markets with potential.

You could put in a range of numbers for purchase price and closing costs, renovation expenses, and expected returns and you could very quickly get a range of projected return on investments (although an excel spreadsheet could easily do this as well), but I'm sure as technology develops we will see even more sophistication in AI's ability to assist in deal analyzing.

That said, a single family home or cabin would be ideal.

I get it with the builders.. we saw that big time in the GFC however the deals I saw was them walking away from substantial EM deposits deep into the 6 figure range.. we did well picking up some lots from lot developers who had this happen to them..