Where some authors try to make everything sound easy, J makes it sound honestly hard, but doable.

I am a hands on, small time landlord doing about everything myself (but contracting out some skilled work)I find housing people worthwhile (and even profitable), but nobody would want a television show about it (think of a camera zooming in on me cleaning carpets or painting walls for hours....snooze)...In fact, I think if you do things right, you can prevent much of the drama (no building disasters or angry tenant confrontations) the staple material that would keep viewers riveted.My strengths would be in the day-to-day, nitty gritty details of small time landlording, especially for part-time landlord that holds down a day job.

Or is this type of deal just not doable and its 100% seller finance or all convential finance...

Is that doable, and if so, how?) 

That is doable in Cleveland!  

Assuming there is equity in the land, financing 100% of the construction usually is very doable, as long as the loan is less than the lender's max LTV % vs the sales price of the total development.

There's no one place to go to, nor is there a quick way to do this, but it is very doable.  

If you've got a regular business then I think those business loans are doable.

I think your goal of buying your first property by next July is very doable.

I want to start with 30 unit/ 1MIL max which is doable in my Cleveland market.