What I'm hoping to find: I'm hoping to make connections, for mutual benefit; this could be investor friendly agents who have experience with identifying promising house hacks, investors who are looking for an additional financial partner, investors who are looking for a partner to help manage the load of projects (I am naturally drawn to planning and execution), and more broadly anyone who is willing to share experience and create new connections!

I'm trying to raise funds from my family and I am being asked to produce pro-forma scenarios at 2, 5, and 10 years which should include IRR and ROI.

What about my search is producing such limited information?

Pertaining to air rights and laws we do not develop in this nature so not sure I can be any help here.

Note origination where the borrower owns multiple properties with little or no debt, needs a loan for an acquisition, but can’t produce proof of income sufficient to get institutional financing.  

This is where everyone started.Residential investing is very forgiving by nature, you have to try hard to really screw it up.

Quote from @Nick Henry: Hi there - I am starting out in real estate investing and am trying to build a portfolio of rentals that can produce enough cash flow for me to eventually leave my job and make real estate my main job.

Also obvious to me is this property will not produce a return that warrants the effort. 

The very tragic LA fires have generated a lot of discussion about insurance costs. People have been dropped by insurance companies in wildfire areas and had to scramble to try to find insurance - some using California...

Hello BP,The Producer Price Index (PPI) is a valuable metric to monitor, as it measures inflation from a business perspective (what businesses pay for services/goods) that isn't always reflected in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) or "inflation" which is commonly discussed in headlines and among other investors.