Also the added value from developing the lot is more in the vacant part than in the already built portion.If we do have to sell the whole parcel, another option could be a performance bond and a lien on the property.Looking up pros and cons of performance bonds, this interesting article comes uphttps://www.lauriebrennan.com/blog/to-bond-or-not-to-bond-th... 

They give redundant common sense info you can get out of a book or a one-page article.

https://www.californiamortgageassociation.org/news-articles/article/senate-bill-1079-californias-new-foreclosure-and-post-foreclosure-process/#:~:text=New%20Civil%20Code%20section%202924m,to%20the%20prospective%20owner%2Doccupant.This law was poorly written. 

I work with plenty of out-of-state investors who are seeing great success here in Ohio.Read this article on the "core 4".

Upon seeing this name again, I looked it up online and found that the person it belonged to had a number of articles from our local news station for a number of crimes, to include forgery, identity theft, impersonation, etc. 

Are there specific BiggerPockets forums or blogs I should follow religiously?

In this week’s blog, I am turning it back over to COLE THOMPSON.

If I was your brother getting my REI portfolio started, is there any advice, strategies, links, literature, articles, or people to follow that you would recommend for someone extremely leery of financial risk?

Hi,Listening to some of the podcasts and reading the blog, I keep feeling this inner red flag that keeps popping up in me.  

I found some local people here through biggerpockets, then we also have a website and blog, I heard one lady gained several properties through social media marketing, and calling listings for rent by owner to see if they would be interested in switching to STR (hopefully I didn't just open a can of worms).