I highly recommend attending real estate networking events to meet more people is this space and pick their brain and learn more from their projects and see what is working and what is not.

If you pick a good lender, they will have done a lot of deals and be able to have a rough sense if your construction costs are on par for the project. 

Under that, it gets very tough.If you plan on retaining/keeping any of the properties you pick up (whether using hard money or otherwise), I strongly recommend you start working with a lender now to see what can be done about your credit.

And ask if interested in picking up more, because as you said your looking to do more so if there looking you'd love to help keep any eye out for what there looking for. 

It all comes down to picking the right areas that work well with your personality and attract the type of clientele you feel comfortable working with. 

It should be evident that so far he led me to ask questions how to be in legal compliance while following his model, rather than jump off the cliff blindfolded, believing that the "deals" are hanging all over the trees down the abyss, waiting for me to pick. 2.

If they would open it up to dealing directly with the bankers, the speed of the recovery would pick up steam very rapidly.

Still very slim pickings in DFW area. 

As things with real estate are starting to pick up for me I'm now getting to a position where I could feasibly have more than one project running at a time and am trying to look at options for how best to keep these straight and on top of all the deadlines.

From what I’ve heard, they’re fantastic for networking and picking up local insights.