Every book, every econ study for like a bajillion years has said "real estate is the best hedge against inflation" and everyone agreed.... until..... 

While finishing up my studies, I am attempting to put together a development that I could pitch to connections I have made and (hopefully) will make in the future. 

They will make cheap/easy fixes or they will discover your specific problem isn't covered by the warranty and you'll have to pay for repair/replacement anyway.Most property managers will not manage a home with a warranty because of the rejections, delays, and poor work. 

Study the market.

That way it is easier to do year one writeoffs and not have to do a Cost Segregation study. 

A study by Geraci LLP, analyzing data from 125 lending companies, shows that the private lending industry performed significantly better in the first four months of 2024 compared to the same period in 2023.When it comes to short-term loans—like fix-and-flip, construction, and bridge loans—there was a notable increase in production from 2023 to 2024.

There’s nothing worse than a lender that over promises and then can’t deliver (sometimes they don’t even review your file before giving you the pre-approval letter and assuring you that all is well, charge you for the appraisal and let you go through inspection and pay for that out of pocket too, then their underwriters get involved and discover some reason they can’t process the loan leaving you high and dry).

There’s an opportunity to take advantage of Qualified Improvement Property (QIP) if depreciating over 39-years.A cost segregation study can assist you generate accelerated depreciation deductions since you’re generating a monthly profit.

for non commercial residential I saw a study indicating that 97 out of 100 largest cities that it is initially cheaper to rent than owner occupy purchase.  

These include falsely claiming to have closed dozens of deals when none were ever closed, illegal payment of undisclosed sales commissions to bundlers and independent contractors, advertising the funds as safe and appropriate to investors with obvious near-term needs for their capital, creating fund of funds en masse assembly line fashion with no corresponding SEC filings, unregistered brokers/financial advisors acting in that capacity absent licensure, having customers wire money claim the fund is fully subscribed and putting them into a high yield promissory note, accepting funds from unaccredited investors, misrepresentations about the debt put on the project, lies about experience level of the principals, omissions of material facts, and at least two straight up Ponzi schemes.While it's true that some legitimate operators are having issues in their portfolios, today's circumstances are a perfect example of the idiom, "you can only discover who is swimming naked when the tide goes out."