Lots of pieces in the puzzle. 

it was a puzzle how to support the walls and slide the full sheets of plywood in.

The land is the cheap piece of the puzzle for 2-4 unit construction.If you want to build for yourself, you need to find a builder that you can work with and is able to do the project. 

You have to work all pieces of the puzzle at the same time when you start out, and you will never have the complete picture of any one piece until you pull the trigger.Like @Cassi Justiz said, most HML can ballpark rates, but they may have lending tiers, so they cant finalize numbers until they see the numbers for a specific property.

It’s been puzzling me for a while.  

You can't gather info and put it together to make a puzzle because unlike a puzzle in a box, there are many, many pieces missing,...and you don't know what they are. 

STRs have two parts of the puzzle: being placed in service and qualifying as an STR.Placing a property in service indeed means being "ready and available" for rent and, technically, does not require actual occupancy. 

I'm puzzled and something seems shady with her landlords activities.

Very puzzled by this after talking the the LA...

Originally posted by Mr_Investor:LOL send that lead to MikeOH I'm sure he can find a way to help her hahahahahah :mrgreen: Hey Mike - maybe she's jiggly which would solve the last piece of your puzzle from that guru thread.