The challenge is, I’m not familiar with the local market—or the Mississippi market in general.Does anyone have insight into the market in this area or know of investors interested in properties in western Mississippi?

Wednesday’s November CPI report gave us a peek at inflation, and it’s not terrible. Headline inflation ticked up from 2.6% to 2.7%, while core inflation—the one that ignores things like your weekly gas price mood swin...

I can walk into a property and know within 10% my rehab costs. 

He's one of the smartest guys I know in the space.

Another trick is know how to run vacancy rate by area.

Quote from @Sam Lewis: I understand the benefits behind hard money lending, its guarenteed return from your cash... however, what cases would a hard money lender trust someone they don't know/barely know?

For illustration purposes if I were given the opportunity to finance my construction projects at 8O% LTC full recourse or 70% partial recourse I will select the higher levered recourse option because have confidence in my projects knowing the debt is sub 60% LTV and want the benefit of leverage. 

Quote from @Breland Clark: I would like to know more about developing land and subdivisions for new builds and apartment buildings. talk to the land development arms in your city or state.

with some training on how to lend.. hopefully a step up from not knowing what they dont know about lending. 

We've never worked together, but I know the story.