A buddy of mine once rushed into a deal that promised sky-high cash flow, but the sponsor’s experience was thinner than a shoestring in Times Square.

We are in the woods where we really wanted to create another sort of living space outside of the square footage of the home. 

You can also double hack these if you have enough units and live in one unit and use one unit for your business, but of course that decreases your cash flow but increases your usability.You can also use an FHA loan to get a mixed-use property with only 3.5% down if the residential square footage if more than 50% of the total square footage.

Well Giacomo, Sometimes you are the football and sometimes you are the foot.

Nothing to do with water everything to do with building in fire prone These same areas have these fires every 20 to 30 years as the Shamece brush and manzanita brush grows back after being burnt to the ground.. it grows back to 10 to 20 foot tall and when that happens and it catches fire there is no stopping it.

They may require a foundation (footings) of some sort, a different home set up, among other things.

I have an opportunity on a 12 unit property but being in SoCal and never setting foot in MS I wanted to ask around 

And then I'd have to foot the bill...

Blow in a resin-coated lining through the old pipe for $150 per linear foot.

I've seen many responses from contractors, saying they've got to buy materials, pay their workers, etc and if they don't know you, you should expect to pay a deposit.I can see both sides of the problem.Contractors, if I foot the bill for the materials, your risk is lessened.How can I propose a fair solution to my contractors?