Incredible lessons learned on how detailed the city of Bellaire requirements are, working in the floodplain, balancing multiple projects and scaling the business.

I also know folks that have used 0% business credit cards to purchase and flip a property.

2) They get busy dealing with all the mundane day-to-day stresses and business responsibilities at which time quality, responsiveness and service may, or may not, suffer.3) Sometimes... 

To make real money in this business requires busting ***.

I have NEVER received a call, much less outside of normal business hours.

A few others have me mentioned other rust belt cities reviving because of cheaper housing prices, rising rents, and new business moving in.  

after alot of procrastinating (like since I started this thread) I was pushed to write a business plan for my dreams in RE and Architdcture.

So there are a million realtors, loan originators, accountants (RE is, for most, not complex vs other small business.)

For example, $50,000 loan at 10% paid out evenly over 10 years.Like I said, super new to this part of the business, so trying to wrap my head (and spreadsheets) around it.

It's clear they are not willing to even talk about it and we would have to make a big issue of it - threaten to pull out of the lease or bring in lawyers, and that doesn't seem to make a lot of sense because it will just make our lives hell and cause our business to suffer.