every person who builds a house or a commercial building has to do so with 25% equity to get it financed with a bank. there is absolutely value in new construction. the hard part becomes making sure your architect knows how to design a building that can make money. but saying you don't know how to is a little silly it's the same idea as existing but ground up you just study the market and look at land more than you do anything else. you can build a house anywhere but you want to do it in better areas. it's either than or higher density's smaller floorplans, etc 

The 3rd is beginning her nursing career so her stuff is solid.On a personal note, I had to put myself through college with no help from anyone but always worked hard and paid my way.

Myself being a small fish in the pond, I personally can't invest under such conditions. 

Coming to the end of a project running the numbers and asking myself if keeping or selling is the best way to go on that particular property.Yes, I’ll save the emotions for my personal residence!

I personally would never invest money in an area that I didn't know, with people I didn't know, in a business I knew nothing about.

It's $250k tax-free for a single person or $500k for a couple.

That being said, I fell out of my chair when I was able to lock an individual investor (personal name) using a 1031 Exchange with about 50% down and 800 credit scores at 6.99%.

I am personally interested to see how this plays out @Xingcai Wu please keep us posted. 

I have personally helped a lot of veterans with VA loans.

Use refinance fund payout person I bought from and do either 1 or 2 above.