If you are building on your own existing lot, you are sacrificing privacy for sure, but if you are comfortable with that in this stage of your life its a good way to maximize what you already have than trying to go to market and spending over $1M on a decent duplex. 

Let me get this right, you are going to go to school and spend countless hours getting a masters degree so that you can get a promotion for a few years so that you can quit that job and work for yourself??

We are firmly in the performing note camp and spend only a handful of hours on each loan from beginning to end.

This allows the Board to spend the funds on anything, and if they do, the owners would need to restock the reserves!

Where I have seen AI or other tools help is with the initial data entry process, so one can spend their time analyzing and modeling the data (vs. keying in data).

Now, seller refuses to extend closing date, will walk away with our EM and put the house back on the market using our appraisal and inspection reports we paid for.

The few times I called the office, they were always happy to spend time talking. 

We only work with investors who take the steps to get pre-qualified and spend a bit of time getting to know our company and allowing us to get to know them. 

That is dissapointing that they did not vet the people they would be spending hours and hours touring properties.

Monitor your spending habits to make sure you’re consistently putting money aside for both the short-term and long-term costs of real estate.