It seems you have your seasons a little bit off: February is a slow month for Sedona and March is when things start to pick up.

I am thinking about picking up my Private Money Broker certification, as way of adding an additional stream of income, but I want your advice if you feel the certicication is worth the effort?

Law students and lawyers have to pick it up along the way.

It would seem logical that enrollment will pick back up again now that we're operating under a budget.

For example we paid for designer that made multiple errors including one that we caught too late and pushed the schedule (but designer picked up the cost impact but not the schedule impact).  

Pick a subject/day of the week and we'll give it a go.

The IRS specifically is looking for people misusing that rule since it's such "easy pickings" for them. 

I said no then called Sack and he no longer pick up the phone.This whole thing leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

The structure we landed on was as follows:- Fixed Builder fee of $300k (each project varies but are 2-6 units, and 5,000-9,000 total finished sq ft)- Fixed Return on all my initial capital invested of 50% (plus return of 100% of initial capital)- Remaining Profit Split of 60/40 (60% to me, and 40% to him)I understand a lot of this hinges on how accurate the proforma is and how close we can get to actually hitting our development costs estimates, build cost estimates, and sales per sq. ft. estimates.

My response to this is if the individuals are hesitant to invest in the first place, the likelihood of that same individual waiting to invest later and then pick an investment with a higher risk profile (which often comes with investments that yield higher returns) is possible, but maybe not as likely.