So these platforms will be looking to teach people how to source deals,  use their experience and soft ware etc.   

Construction Loan with at 80% LTC with $ 800,000 held back for construction and misc. soft costs.How did you add value to the deal?

I haven't seen a May this soft since the financial crisis.

You may have to go creative rather than conventional, but depending on where it is and what you are doing, you may be looking at anywhere between 100K-300K in soft costs (permitting, design, architecture, utility hook ups, etc.) and a construction budget of probably 1 Mil to whatever, once again depending on what you are doing and where. 

think it's just starting to get too much and I am afraid she is going to be demanding and maybe has read me as a soft touch.In the past two weeks I also cut all the grass, installed an AC, and bought a second fan, at her request. 

It's a struggle starting out and I don't think it's talked about enough in more of a blunt way, in blog posts or any article on the web, everyone seems to softly speak about the introduction part that requires money.

Cleaners should be able to wash dishes, make beds and other misc soft set up work. 

When I told him, that I am not going to do that at this point as we are merely talking and the lender I spoke to 30 minutes earlier had run a soft pull and send me a term sheet, he then did he agree to give me a "Ballpark" terms verbally.

Soft sand warm waters..

If there is a problem with the septic's drain field, it can make the ground soft like that and then drain into the basement.