The GC was a bit behind on the rebuild (the owner had a stroke so understandable). 

Are the government regulations being painted with too broad of a brush stroke?

But moral of the story don’t paint taxes with too broad of a stroke.

Bank keeps 20% (20k) for their equity share and then stroke you a check for 80k paying you everything back...this allows you to do it again. hope this helps

The contractor made a schedule for me showing in broad strokes what work was being performed each week.

In broad strokes, it's a fine plan!

If you hunker down into a specific community or area and commit to getting to know everything about the area, the sales activity, the rental comps, the time on market, the floorplan options (walk each one as they come on the market to get familiar with the flow of floorplans, and popularity of them based on time on market), it will make you a smarter investor so that when a property comes up within "your" community, you may have a leg up on an investor who is just doing broad strokes ARV estimating. 

Different strokes for different folks.

Maybe could use a couple brush strokes here and there.

Based on your post title I figured you'd feel more like Kermit than Neo... but different strokes I guess... welcome :)