When building new, it is possible to design and build houses, and larger buildings, with a modest increase in up-front capital (10 - 15%) costs in comparison to the "normal/typical" minimum code build, which have resulting energy consumption 70%+ lower.  

Let me know if I can ever be of help. 

Has anyone ever worked with this mortgage company before?

Has anyone ever worked with this mortgage company before?

I have 3 multi family properties on the west side of Cleveland in Lakewood Ohio and am planning on looking for a larger commercial property.

The sales prices were $10-20K over anything else ever sold in the neighborhood.  

The Great Recession changed all that and I was forced into the rat race which was never a place I ever felt I belonged.  

The reason he suggests flipping is to get the profit from a couple of flips and then maybe go into rentals with a larger sum of money.

Though I'm not new to investing and finance (it's probably an equal interest with software engineering) I am a total newb to real estate: I've only ever rented and own no property.

.- The equity gain for rehabs is larger than many other parts of the country.