Can you say winning the lottery?

Stick to your investing criteria unless it's unreasonable for the Twin Cities right now (finding more than 10% COC anywhere near the metro is like winning the lottery) and continue networking with agents to find the right deal for you. 

Well, you start off with hitting the lottery.

Think time value of money...you win the lottery, do you want cash up-front or wait for dribbled cash over years and years?

Mayor Todd Gloria Wednesday signed into law an ordinance capping short-term vacation rentals at 1% of the city’s housing supply and prioritizing “good actors” in a lottery to determine who gets to offer properties for whole-home vacation rentals.The San Diego City Council passed the ordinance 8-1 on April 6.

New Home builders are sometimes selling to the highest/best offer, while most work on the drawing/lottery system.

You hit the lottery! 

New builds are hard to get right now because of the lottery system most builders are offering, so do everything you can to keep your ducks in a row.Not sure if you're using your own lender or the builder's lender, but stay in touch with them during the process and ask as many questions as you can to ensure things go smoothly when it's time to close.

They were having lotteries.

But so are the mental defectives who buy lottery tickets and pull the handles of slot machines.