First, it fast-tracks your learning as an investor - you are forced to develop better time management skills, build your network of reliable contractors/ handymen, etc..Second, when you are ready to transition to a property manager, you are well equipped to evaluate and hire the right company.3.

What people find appealing about Bitcoin, is what made it run afoul of the post-recession and post-9/11 PATRIOT Act anti money laundering stuff.This is a direct quote from the FHA Customer Service team at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, again for an FHA loan.I am sorry, without a traditional bank statement, we could not verify the Bitcoin funds came from an acceptable source and was not provided as a loan by an unauthorized party to the transaction.

The macroeconomics are blowing up and going parabolic - population growth, job growth, and companies moving and developing here.

The biggest employer in the region shut down about a year ago, and over the past year, the area was directly hit by three hurricanes (two of them major). 

Regarding the HOA and CC&R's, the builder can make changes to the CC&R's pretty easily while the development is under Declarant Control.

True, I am 100% with you on that.The point here is, when you analyze, you do based on what you know now (what is known as a fact today) and on what is highly likely to happened (again from today) and to accept the fact that things might change tommrow.Life happened every day, that’s why  we need to stay firm with our direction but flexible with our approach.having lived through the HORRORS of those years fully engrossed in the industry almost nationwide... it was regional on who did well and who had troubles.. no question well positioned landlords in Portland for instance no issue.. 

I grew up in the real estate industry watching my father raise money with a PPM for large multifamily value add projects and a developments.

When you work at a large corporation (national or global) you learn a lot in your role, but also by osmosis, just by observing other people and seeing how projects are developed, business is done etc.

Hopefully it'll be lower, but that where's my urban developers in a few other markets are seeing their numbers come in.

Price $25,000 they could have developed and rented.