Number 1 is a GC , a professional , he has the contacts and provides you with a finished product .

As we all know, real estate is slow to react, so, even if interest rates drop and the presidency goes in favor of a real estate centric President it will still take some time for the market to reverse its trend.

There are many good lenders on BP that offer this product.

I can understand that low cost housing will appeal appeal to a different tenant profile, but if the product itself is very good won't it also attract the kind of tenant you want more readily?!?

Both hard money and heloc's are useful products...

They are slow to makes funds available for new accounts, but are very transparent about the timing.

But we've experienced a huge change in underwriting for non-qm style products, and anything over 5 units is severely delayed. 

No production home is built well.

Schwab offers almost exactly the same products and I like them both. 

It turns out that coordinating engineers, marketing and sales to launch a software product is not crazy different from coordinating vendors and subs to "launch" a construction project.I will disagree with everyone who says that hiring subs yourself puts you at a pricing disadvantage vs. prices GCs get.