Then of course, stuff goes wrong and you solve those problems and press ahead.

They pressed the wrong landlord who filed a lawsuit.

If you see a press report about a CRE team moving from one bank to another, it typically means the onboarding bank is aggressive with their lending.

It's illegal in most of the city and only getting more bad press.

Did you have any pressing reason to want him to Seller-finance?

Under normal times, you’d be hard-pressed to toss a stone into any real estate club and not hit a private lender.

Only thing is with the rates and property values like they are now my new properties will by hard pressed to make $200-300 per property to cash flow. 

We believe a more meaningful time frame would be five years, and we look forward to the next four in order to build a credible track record, which will lead to more meaningful bench-marking opportunities.

Even white shutters/door/trim would be OK - this is not the most expensive neiborhood.However, burgundy gives it a special look - everybody wanted the bench, too.....lolThe highest and best use of the money were these flowers - I've got two offers right after I changed my front photo - it cost $20 in August but gives that final touch.Shutters are not expensive but the door cost dearly.

IE I lived and grew up in Northern CA wine County Napa Sonoma Lake Counties  where land cost can be as high as 1 mil per acre for prime Rutherford bench  etc etc..