Your vision and desire to even dream of doing a project this big, your resourcefulness to put all the pieces together, the ability to sell your idea and yourself, your honesty & integrity with everyone involved, your willingness to pay off your debts and make the hard sacrifices and your humility to share your experience are the ingredients of  super sucessful entrepreneurs.The things you've learned from this experience will help you for the rest of your life.

@Lee Ribeiro the key ingredient to receiving a conforming cash out loan is you. 

I get a lot of newbies asking me what are the key ingredients in being successful in the real estate industry.

Your opportunity cost (at least with the simplest of examples) would be $625K. 

First of all, it is Hemp, (not Cannabis), Hemp does not have the psycho-active ingredients that get you 'high'.   

@Martin Saenz I think of it at it's simplest as the hunter vs gatherer mindset.

Income real estate is "valued" by cap rate, which in the simplest terms means you take the net operating income, divide it by the purchase price, and that is your cap rate. 

The easiest and simplest methods I've seen again and again are either posting on CL or searching around CL to find the "We buy houses fast" kind of guys. 

This is the simplest and easiest to file for collections in small claims court if they default. 

The screener would simply call the number listed and ask does so-and-so work there or live there, and not do the simplest of diligence to determine if the number was an actual employer or landlord.