If you do not have 300k income you are not even allowed to participate at Accredited-Investor only Investment.It's just matter of time until the authority comes and investigate more private investment that involves public/investors money.I am also involved in certain clawback litigation against previous quite-famous-syndication that was under SEC receivership now.It's fun to watch how the GP has to sold all their Rolex watches to bring back the money back to investor.

I never investigated further.I always questioned his recommendations because at the price/rent point he was advocating, the maintenance/cap ex would consume too much of the rent unless actively self managed.  

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when you "hearing" stuffs, you have to investigate deep dive and ask for pragmatical answer, including pro and cons.

Investigate to see if there are people/jobs moving there, and if there are, start running evaluations on every property for sale that pops up in that area.

How do you get a sense of if people are living there so you can plot out your preliminary exit strategy of whether to modify the loan or do foreclosure or something else?  

My townhome development in WA was under 200k for 18-units to get full building and civil permits.So hypothetically, if you think it's worth 100k per door at preliminary approval before utilities and improvements maybe it'd be worth paying 50-60k per lot.

if the timber is merch  you should get a mill in there to bid on the timber.. hire a logger.. profit you use to knock the stumps out.your civil engineer should be giving you a preliminary cost to do infrastructure normally they will do these for free since they will be designing it all.. they would be the best bet anyone on line is simply  a WAG  

Gotta love these low lifes Suspected meth lab found in basement of home that caught fire, Cleveland investigators say (cleveland19.com)

We use a YTD paystub and last year’s W-2(s) to calculate income several different ways:Hourly or salary income calculated to a monthly amountYTD income divided by number of YTD monthsYTD + W-2(s) income divided by the corresponding number of monthsIf these numbers vary too much, then we investigate and require an acceptable Letter of Explanation.Employment StabilityUnless an applicant has exceptional credit, we strive to determine their stability of employment to make sure they’ll always be able to pay the rent on time.