I regularly go to Mexico so I know first hand what's going on there. 

I then look at area vacancies, economic conditions, employment opportunities, area demographics and verify that the property has not been red tagged or have any other underlying problems that might make it difficult to resell or rent.When I have my financial information then I can consider debt service and costs related to equity partners in the overall income produced.

Become a regular.

Never pay for work that hasn’t been done.3.Verify Work Regularly: Have an objective third party inspect the quality of the work weekly and provide updates.

They're spending tax-payer money, so they'll cut a check without batting an eye.Document condition before and after with photos, inspect regularly, and you should be fine.

If no one tells them about balance sheet, then real estate investors aren't going to focus on them.My clients are always looking at the balance sheets after I taught them the importance of it.There are a lot of times not just real estate investors, just regular business owners, they look at the P&L and say great, I made $100K this year, but my bank is showing $10K, where is the rest of the money.

Especially a meet up on private lending, ADU additions are discussed regularly (new attendees looking for money for their ADU additions without being aware that no one there will lend on ADU additions).  

I’m no polished writer, and my grammar might not be perfect, but I hope to find some fun and value in posting here regularly.

I’m no polished writer, and my grammar might not be perfect, but I hope to find some fun and value in posting here regularly.

Fed's "create" things by "making it rain" to create the actual producers to produce.