I was told that a ground-floor condo are better than a second floor condo ( If there's no elevator and Stairs are present).

Hi Treza,Not sure where you are in the process there, but when your ready to exercise financing options please reach out, it's very difficult to find a ground up program for inexperienced borrowers without having an experienced GC sign on the loan with you which in turn is not easy to find. 

I self perform most of my construction at this point and find it very difficult to make ground up construction pencil in Philadelphia unless I am selling for $400/ft.

I started listening to BPRE in 2022 (I think), right around the time when Brandon was phasing out and David Greene took over.

These are three phases in the buying process where the buyer could walk away from the deal.

The construction phase had its own challenges. 

Hello everyone,I’m currently in the planning phase for a development project just outside of Santa Fe, NM.

Our team buys the properties and converts them and manages them so it has been a great learning experience seeing all three phases from taking down a project, renovating the building then managing the lease up.

Boots on the ground, or lack thereof, are where the mistakes are made.

Gotta work on that reading comprehension, Drew.The second and third sentences of my post are literally:"I lived in Detroit for 5 years before moving out of state, and during that time, I built a strong network of contractors, handymen, and other boots-on-the-ground contacts.