Cabin Park Development:Property: Own 24 acres on a river with two cabins, all paid off and valued at about $1.5 million.Objective: Aimin to develop this into a cabin park.Request: Can y'all recommend any designers or firms that offer quality services at reasonable rates?

It's a relationship game more than anything, so if you're building strong relationships with them and providing a consistent product, you'll be golden.

I guess I could do some work-arounds -- maybe reserve one unit in the first purchase for use as an AirBnb, and reserve my own time in it when needed - instead of claiming it as a primary.Are either of you (or anyone) familiar with a finance product/loan that will allow me to purchase under $150,000 (w/ strong credit) and do much of my own work and live-in a portion as a primary residence?  

I also like contractors that have packets that allow you to pick out the stuff that you want to use for that project, which reduces the quality control process..

I enjoy interacting with other investors and helping people do better, not measure the quality of questions.

Steadily has their own product (with multiple writing companies) and then they offer policies through other carriers just as an independent agency would. 

@Darrius LloydTo start your house hacking journey, research neighborhoods with potential for multifamily properties and balance affordability with tenant quality.

What is the specific product you used, if you don't mind me asking?

Here’s how they approached it:1.Scraping Listings: They used web scraping tools like Beautiful Soup and GPT APIs to scan Airbnb for properties in their target areas.2.Image Analysis: They trained an AI model to analyse listing photos, identifying homes with solid potential (good structure, layout, location) that were undervalued due to low-quality photos.

I would love to talk with a lender to get a better handle on the products that help investors BUT in my strategy, I am leaning toward NOT using hard money at first(if I can avoid it).