There are dark forces behind the current "unjuried" approach. 

Boy this is a hell of a shot in the dark…I was listening to a podcast several weeks ago…and the host/guest mentioned a book about building and scaling businesses. 

In my opinion.And, as I mentioned, it's also always possible to negotiate to simply get the neighbor to deed over enough property to meet the boundary requirements so his property meets the setback requirements.Lots of ways to skin this cat.

I won’t even remember all of this fuss once it all goes dark.

Unless you're on the beach, i'd avoid the flip flops and board shorts, but Also I think most people get defenisve or put off by suits when they are knocking on someones door, so Business Casual, collard shirt if that is something you'd wear or a Clean- Non Graphic T (unless you had your own made), clean cut dark denim jeans -- and some clean shoes. 

Stuart I have been with my commercial banker now since 1993.. started with a little 100k  LOC to buy timber and within 8 years I was the largest borrower at that bank at about 15 mil.. ( small community bank)  but we fought through the GFC together I had to start over and my banker kept one last  1mil LOC open for me so I could operate and since those dark says of 2010 he has gone on to fund 5 subdivisions for me  300 plus homes and 100 plus million in loans and this is based on relationship 100%..

Having an experienced agent on your team before the rehab i think is very important because it is during the rehab when they can help add the most value by pointing you in the direction of what adds value to the sale, what finishes to choose and what to avoid, even what color paints are a good choice, insuring that your target sales price is not just realistic, but that it can actually appraise for that amount. 

Funding companies and banks are concerned that the cash out will not be used for business purposes and that the investor will not have enough skin in the game if things get tougher.If you qualify for government or agency financing that's great, but many of our investors do not and they rely on small banks and funding companies.

Placed too much emphasis on who he was rather than the property itself (but this investment property still had plenty of equity) and then had to foreclose on him because he went dark.

The biggest ego seems to coincide with the thinnest skin.