Quote from @Travis Timmons: My take is that if a fund has an influencer's name attached to it, they're core competency is promotion and fund raising rather than being a good operator.

Abandon the Peurto Rico dream for now and look at more realistic/beginner friendly areas that still sport a large latin influence and strong rentals, like Florida (I've looked a little bit outside Miami..Boca Raton, Tampa, West Palm Beach, etc). 

Unless you can influence the builders to return our deposits like you made us get into this deal with them as we trusted you, the matter has not moved an inch for folks like me.

The best advice on this topic, in my opinion, comes from 2 books:How to win friends and influence peopleNever eat aloneI am also looking for brokerages to work with or even experienced shadow / intern for to gain experience and additional knowledge.

Since then I have dedicated most of my free time to study Wrights work, developing myself as 1st an Architectural Drafter, and now as a conduit of beautiful Architecture and interior/exterior design in the spirit and style of Frank Lloyd Wright.

We did floors, and multiple interior repairs ourselves while living there.

I am a former interior designer and did a great deal of work staging homes for sale.

They missed the promised start date on the project by almost two months causing a cascading failure on dates since it was the roof, there were interior things, other dependencies that we couldn't do until the roof was finished. 

Interest Rates: Current spreads, rate structure, buydowns, mission driven business, factors that influence your rate, etc.5.

I got a quote for 8K sft retail from a construction company for around $120/sft, this includes site prep, utilities, metal building erection, exterior finishes, interior insulation etc (basically build the shell from scratch).