Start soft by letting them know they can go the easy way or the hard way. 

help ideals. the property is about 3000 soft the front side is currently done the back half is still a work in progress 

This month occupancy is a little soft, but it will pick up in the fall.

Hopefully the prime season performs well enough to make up for some of the soft off season. 

As I have been reading a lot of terrible experiences and stories about landlords getting burned due to tenants simply taking their softness for granted and especially taking advantage of a lot of elderly homeowners to live in the places for free and in some cases even filing lawsuits against landlords to simply make money out of them.

@Melissa Bass I am glad I'm able to help.Keep us posted.

Site selection, estimating/detailed budgeting, all labor/material/soft costs are an open book with no markup/GC fee, and i own all site management from groundbreaking to closing.- Total cost of these projects would range between $390k-$550K.

Lenders may provide a Letter of Interest and this will give you a soft loan commitment from the lender.

(roof, well, tree roots raising the A/C unit at a 20 degree angle, soft, uneven  floors under carpet, etc.)  

Now having capital in CD versus it in soft assets or hard assets, eh I'd take the hard one's first.