CA doesn't have an extra $30b/$40b laying around to do that, not to mention the additional billion to actually do the project to be build ready. 

Is that available to scale up and if there are investors,  resources to manage that side if the business.I imagine a $60M/year Lending business will need systems in place and more than 1 extra person.

-Allocate a portion of your funds toward extra payments on the current mortgage while also setting aside money for a new investment.

Hey, if you get married you'll be able to shield an extra $250k in capital gains!!

Something like a house hack, rent out extra bedrooms in your unit, rent by the room, mid term, short term rent the owner occupied unit on busy weekends (and go stay with friends/family)...get really scrappy.

If you don't need the extra money at closing and just want to pay off your current loan in hopes of a better rate, you could consider a rate term refi instead. 

We have been able to get some great deals simply by doing extra research that the average person wasn't willing to do.

They did have an extra step to make sure that you were the owner of the property, but otherwise it was not bad at all. 

Because the extra family members weren't on the original eviction, I had to wait another 3 months to get them out. 6 months altogether. 

So, it's not like Scott had devised some extra default prone strategy to troll gullible fools, while making all his money teaching noobs to self-destruct.