I didn't even mention some of the fan favorites like Pequod's, and there is even a deep dish pizza pot pie in Lincoln Park!

The "golden triangle" of pot growing is Shasta, Humboldt and Trinity Counties in CA.

The $1K house I just bought, the seller called me 7 times the day I looked at it and kept following up asking when she could get her money, which ended up being like $720 net.  I

From the left, there is an argument that it drives up neighborhood prices (I happen to believe this/worry about it for certain zip codes) and for the right, there's a reticence to embrace change and, consequent, fear of pot smokers and partiers.

Most if not all tenants we evict don't have a pot to pee in.

This meant that the building got good care for a number of years, but after the passing, deferred maintenance and not knowing how to deal with tenants made them go to pot.

Sounds like you are sitting on top of a pot of gold.

So broken down looks like -$2,000,000 loan$120,000 fees$200,000 IO reserve needed prior to funding.They then fund in two tranches - 1st tranche is 20% of loan ask - $400,000 (they take fees out of this) so net is $280,000.2nd tranche is remaining 80% or $1.6M in this case. 

They mark up the labor , the subcontractors , the materials , the dumpster , they charge for the time to get permits , even charge for the spot a pot on site . 

I live in California, and you would be shocked at the hoards of illegal money that gets filtered into real estate deals by drug cartels and growers wanting places to grow pot etc.