Since it was over 12 months with my HML, I ended up taking the property under my name with a 30-year conventional loan.

The bad is long gone in the rear view mirror so now, that motivation of making the bad go away, has gone away. 

If I am going to take time to prepare it, then I am going to want some kind of commitment from you to stick with me. 

Our view gets the most compliments.

I am taking a salesperson license exam this year to get into the industry and use these commissions toward closing costs.

Quote from @Devin James: In one of our development projects, the City staff asked us to remove 40 units from our concept plan.This wasn’t requested by the City Commission at a formal hearing, it was the opinion of the staff.Our original concept already proposed fewer units than the current zoning would have allowed.Here’s what erasing 40 units means:- 40 fewer homes for buyers- Over $1M in lost profit for our team- Fewer tax dollars and impact fees that could’ve benefited the City’s infrastructure & servicesWe gotta get betterEveryone wants more affordable housing, but not everyone wants to do what it takes to achieve it we never listen to the recommending bodies. we move for city approvals and work closely. the other thing we do is keep going back to the same groups over and over and over and over every month on the same agenda and make very small reductions like 2% or 4% and that reduces and beats them down eventually they accept what you want. it's just before beating a dead horse. we keep tabling until they give us something we all agree on then we go to vote. in our city in columbus we have to get recommendations but that's our strategy. we used to come out as aggressive as possible. we typically study developments in the area and keep it very similar in terms of density. we have a track record of very controversial projects and litigation and not taking no as an answer. after a year of that haha I can tell you it's not worth it. now we are more relationship based and buying the right kinds of plots of land. if the numbers don't work on the front end don't do the development. 

What I'm gathering from these responses is not necessarily an encouragement to sell and that instead to take precautions to decrease the fire risk and ensure that insurance is covering things like wind.

@Guifre Morai am searching for a HELOC or refi so I have some capital to take advantage of any future deals, sounds like HELOCs have been frozen, anyone have any info.

I am taking action everyday and hope to close on a deal soon. 

It might take some digging, but you can often find the information you need.