starting so new, you will not be on the top of many lists as you dont have reviews that will help push you up. as you have probably seen, even with a competitive rate, Airbnb doesnt let you sort searches by price.

What sort of hiring criteria do you evaluate in the firm performing the study?

Sometimes they don’t like that because you don’t have skin in the game.As for advantages to the seller - are you going to pay them more for the property, that would be a perk that I offer in addition to making a little extra on interest for the duration of the loan.

Everything is profit after that (sort of).

The bathrooms made me so depressed... plastic shower units with sad apartment class vanities with some sort of beige solid surface tops. 

Do I need any sort of license or anything to manage my own properties?

You'd have to be a builder to really reap any sort of profits from an area as such. 

This saved my skin on the exit!

The other is a service and sort of hospitality-oriented approach.

Can I "cosign" for the loan to convince the bank to loan money to the builder (and if so require some sort of oversight from me for money to be dispersed to him?)?