Big cities tend to have more regulations, more crime, more leftist-leaning policies that hurt investors and private property rights, etc.

Did you guys ever raise private money?

You also cannot use a second mortgage (from HML/private lender) for a 2-4 unit non owner property. 

Also, if you’re a private lender yourself, feel free to chime in—I’d love to hear from you!

There is a lot of information on BP regarding being a private lender and outside groups taht have a lot of support in this space.

As noted, if your options are Reg D, private offering vs fully registered public offering, even if you are talking Pink Sheet (OTC) stocks, you have public filing costs, annual audit requirements, and likely more on-going expenses that have to be covered by the property(s) owned by the offering.  

it will be a corporate/wellness retreat/short term rental destinationI need land that is close to the Action, but not too close, and preferably comes with two single family doors already built, so I can take advantage of Fannie Mae owner occupied loan and develop the rest of the land on my own and with private funding.Is Columbus a good market for this strategy?

Once you have enough properties to support your life style, what is the point of acquiring more?

(Then we’d just start a commune, I guess.)The Setup: Living My Best (Small) LifeI bought a 2BD/1BA home with a private efficiency studio.

They are sponsoring for the Non Recourse and it's up to the student to pull money from where ever they can pull it from, usually some kind of private lender