The current price of the house is worth about $900000.

Do you have any tips on how to approach and structure deals with private lenders for scaling?

My contractor brought me a house off the market.

The neat thing with TDR is that, after you've sold off the residential development rights, you still own the land and get to use it in all the same ways as before, except that you can no longer build houses on it.

Quote from @Scott MacComb: I am doing my first true house flip (have remodeled plenty of houses for rental) and am trying to figure out a contract to use with a new general contractor whom I have not worked with previously. 

I still never put less than $500K liability insurance on any house, and more on apartments.Lawsuits do happen. 

Affordable housing is about the housing itself and the economic environment it is created in.

Always fix all water issues first before moving on to doing major repairs of a structural  nature.  

The moisture issue and structural issue need to be addressed and you can do so before the insurance adjuster comes out.

If a seller refinanced a house at around 220k and has about 120k left in mortgage, but the house also appreciated to 450k, how do I structure a subto/seller finance deal?