Payment structure: Regardless if it is local or remote, you’d want to structure payment to specific milestones in the payment terms with timelines in the contract. 

I’ve seen investors give numbers and graphs, and send me all kinds of info to show me their area’s positives, but yet I am still happier than ever in what some people call the Armpit of America, Northwest Indiana.

Per the graph, we are still in stage 8, 9, or 10.We are in phrase 2, expansion mode.

Professional Fee is a separate line item and paid out over mile stones eg. foundation, framing, etc. 

In very broad and general terms I would say that cash flow and appreciation go in opposing graphs.

Personally, I see these monthly threads as "mini-milestone goal setting."

AMAZING graphs and data all around demographics.  3.

This means they're a real business and not some fly-by-night crack heads.If the latter are giving me a screaming deal and might be worth working with, I buy the materials and only pay them their labor and profit after a milestone is completed to my satisfaction and that I know I won't have to redo it. 

I'd like to compare how software and construction project managing are similar in nature.... i.e. project schedule, Scope of Work, Milestones, Scope summary, risks/issue log, Deliverable Acceptance Notifications, and all the PM knowledge areas and processes.

I can speak for conventional lenders when I say that we would always require the required cash injection from the borrower to go in first and then we would set up a draw schedule tied to completion milestones with the loaned funds.