However, I would prefer to cut my teeth on this project as it would be my 1st new development project and the area is ideal.Stewart

I continue to doubt you and your independence from this company, as it is like pulling teeth getting details from you.

I'd go find a nice SFH in a solid b/c area you can steal to cut your teeth for your first deal.

How many times do we grind our teeth in frustration when we can't get answers, and we call and get a machine. 

It was a kick in the necessary in the teeth I needed to hear.

I recently had a post removed looking to network with local fix and flip investors simply due to the mention of my current capacity as a private money lender (without any promotion whatsoever) merely because the post "may arise in deal making".

Most sellers don't have 1/2 this stuff, as the tenant should have some of this so it can be like pulling teeth to get the answers to see how well this property is taken care of.  

Extra money goes on my mortgage every single paycheck automatically, so there are no opportunity costs whatsoever and I'm getting a guaranteed return via interest savings.

It's the factor worker / blue collar career that began in the 1870s and gradually morphed in the 1960s-70s into the corporate American white collar career.But some of us are weirdos and really want to sink our teeth into life and tear a hunk out of it, chew it up, and see how good it tastes.100- 400 years ago we would have been pioneers, leaving family, friends, and a known way of life behind to strike it out on a dusty trail that was fraught with peril and no guarantees. 

I brushed my teeth this morning, is that an assumption?