@Ashley Zigler Let me know if you ever need numbers of contractors for a coastal area project or any area inland as well. 

You may have to work for free or at low cost to the small company, as they will be very sensitive to cash flow and costs.The development business is one of the most complicated businesses that I know of combined with risk in land markets, underwriting, financing, and construction.

OPM-the key to building an empire.

I'm gearing up to use the BRRRR strategy (out of state investing) and start my real estate empire (insert maniacal laugh here) by buying in class C to C+ neighborhoods.

Some days, I want to keep investing continuously like that for a lifetime and just build an empire.

Its an empirical rule of thumb derived from some large datasets from apartment management. 

If dealing with a broken toilet or two, or hearing some footsteps above my head are the small challenges I have to deal with to climb to the top of an everlasting empire, then I'll put some gloves on, and sleep with ear plugs in if I have to. 

Florida is very hot and muggy, especially the inland.

Accelerating 3% mortgage pay-downs just means you have different goals than a RE empire and that's fine!

I could see the SE region stretching from the SC coast up to the Cape Carteret area but not much more than that or too far inland.