Obviously these are very generalized numbers and I feel your pain with L&I, they gotta be getting paid by the hour based on how slow and painful it is to deal with them sometimes.

Our pain point is that we have talk to many banks and it seems we have no way of taping into the equity of our portfolio. 

Typically in California, a Will alone is not sufficient to avoid probate - which is a pain, time consuming, and very expensive. 

It doesn't matter how many brokers and REA feel pained and whine and slander guys who don't have a license yet able to make money off their sweat. 

The deal was valued based on a recent sale of the local Holiday Inn, (only real competition for us) which also needed to undergo renovation.

If you do it all yourself at minimum your looking at probably 5-7k on the kitchen, 2-3k on the bath, 1.5k in the floors unless you are using the peel and stick tiles, close to 500 in pain and supplies.

I feel your pain. 

They may have growing pains issues - I cannot attest to anyone else's experience  but as of April 2022 I feel like things are going in a good direction with the new build properties he is developing and he has been genuinely interested in my success with his company. 

The deal was valued based on a recent sale of the local Holiday Inn, (only real competition for us) which also needed to undergo renovation.

This people are a pain in the ***.