You will quickly find, as you generate local person-to-person relationships, how many opportunities open up! 

I had no idea what Ayn Rand was writing about was a REAL person: Frank Lloyd Wright.

And if they don't deliver, you need a truck and an extra person.  

I had a good conversation with the representative.

The first is having a personal portfolio of 5 passive rental properties, not including my residence.

I've personally found the bulk of my Chicago purchases off the MLS.

i've managed both OOS and in-person and both can be a pain but OOS is just harder for most new investors, period.

Marketing-Ready Design – Your rental should look as good on camera as it does in person.

She closed and hired me for the conversion process and found out the Zoning wouldn't allow it at all.

What we found was only one other person contracted under $200 per square foot for clients and they also built within the city of columbus. the numbers have a much higher premium the closer you get to downtown. if you can't get the numbers to work my recommendation would be to get closer to downtown. we do build to rent development and single family home development and every line item is broken out. on the triples we have to build exterior staircases etc there are some things you can't really understand unless you build a lot. hope that helps but no one is going to build you for 110 a square foot. the lowest cost homes in our market at cost without a profit barely dip into 140 a square and we are in one of the cheapest construction markets and states in the country.