They equate the period leading up to the time its ready to rent as the risky part of the real estate process and pay a premium to bypass that part but this leaves them with unreasonable expectations because the real estate they purchase is inherently risky.

A common pitfall is treating each deal as a standalone transaction instead of connecting acquisitions, financing, and project management as part of one cohesive process.

I use a custom setup in Notion to manage my lending workflow and am building a mirror setup for notes, and am also in the process of testing Pipedrive as a CRM.

Probably they make it up in upcharges on maintenance repairs, or they will keep all your application fees, processing fees, tenant charges,pet fees and charges or make ready or something somewhere. 

I've been reasonably happy with this so far, since it's made the process fairly passive. 

My wife and I are in the process of closing on a vacation home in the Davenport area.

It’s likely the GC will subcontract the concrete work to a specialist while they focus on managing the permitting process and ensuring everything is done to code—especially if there are ADA requirements involved for the ramp.Let me know if you need help navigating the process or any tips for working with contractors.

However, I had to subordinate the sellers note to 2nd position (hint: set up that language in advance to streamline the process, if that's the direction you're going to go).Since the ARV was high enough, and the potential income would support the mortgage and expenses, it all worked out. 

They cancelled our contract for "being out of process in the processing of your future S8 tenant's paperwork".

REI is a long-term venture; if you cannot hold this will be a very difficult process.