If you choose Oakland, I would research landlord tenant laws here and have access to an attorney here - it has heavily pro-tenant laws and the lower priced homes are in high crime areas.

It is going to heavily depend on where you are because price to rent ratio

I’m wondering if you have any insight into developing and construction on properties that are heavily tree’d and a little off the grid, as far as installing solar and connecting to sewage and water.

As far as Scotch goes, I really prefer the full-bodied, heavily-peated stuff from Islay and my favorite is the Lagavulin 16.

This business is heavily based on relationships, so in most cases, the referral you get will be highly biased by the relationship between the realtor/lender and not necessarily what's most objectively reasonable.

It depends on the program, the two that I am most familiar with will do 100/100 at 70% ARV but will underwrite pretty heavily and will treat it almost along the lines of a non-QM lenders and might even underwrite the builder/GC.

Last year, I bought a condo in an area that I knew was being heavily developed and has a big plan for growth.

We say we'll go 85% on that product, but honestly, it's hard to find a property that is that heavily leveraged where the rent equals or exceeds the mortgage principal, interest, taxes, insurance and HOA fees.

In fact  there's a company that markets quite heavily on this BP that sells uneducated investors formation packages that are completely impractical and unnecessary but there are plenty of accountants out there who do the same.  

People warn heavily against them and many PM’s refuse to touch it.