The trouble is that there really isn't a good way to monitor this perfectly.The Mortgage Professor has a table of conforming wholesale interest rates on his home page.

The Director, a good friend and soon-to-be investment partner, told me that their strategy is that they are trying to stamp out the drug activity by literally disrupting the drug routes (physical backwoods trails) by building and monitoring full communities in strategic locations over there.

Monitored or un-monitored, app integration on a smart phone, something like that.

Plus the amount of wastage is hard to monitor.

I finance with a local bank, that has historically been extremely easy for me to deal with when I have a property under contract and the numbers work.On to my question. while I am working on the details of this deal and trying to close within the next 30 days, I am also monitoring the MLS and other sources for potential deals.

How much time do you have to speak with the GC, go to the job site, check the receipts, monitor the expenses to see if you're still within budget, talk to the listing agent, etc?

If you build new, given what you have offered in your question, you will need someone to monitor the construction, this will most likely not be your agent.Also, keep in mind that building a house requires much different initial financing that buying a new home.

If my tenant gets mold, I deliver a humidistat ($9) so they can monitor humidity levels and do something about it.  

As such, local banks tend to monitor their loans on some regular basis.Not what I would really say is for the novice to play with.  

If you check out the Windsor crime map you will get a feel for trouble spots and I monitor it sometimes.