I'm no longer standing in my way.

On the flip side, if you own a stand alone single family home near the beach and you use it as a vacation rental, you  will still need to provide amenities in order to compete.

I'll have a better idea once I hear back from some hard money lenders- I think I know where I stand but don't want to assume!

Is "standing out" or "blending in" better? 

Any creative ways that help make you stand out? 

I initially started with a list of 50 cities and narrowed it down systematically :-) Do any of those stand out to you in particular?

Construction went from 8 weeks to 14 weeks due to a variety of reasons; main one being that I let the wrong person lead the project on the ground level, which ended up leaving things at a stand-still a week here and a week there, and those weeks and days of doing nothing adds up fast! 

While Arena calls his critics retrograde and implies racism (many of whom probably are), I personally find it understandable on a financial/psychological level that empathy diminishes when an event like that stands to decrease the value of the biggest investment (a home) you're likely to make in your life. 

The seller likely stands to lose much more than you do if you walk... make em fix it, but don't think for one second a smoker is going to "stop" smoking no matter what a piece of paper says.

It’s your place with your rules . it’s a serious matter, because it sets the ground work on where you stand and how you fIrmly plan to manage the property