Once you reach a certain point, you realize you can't do everything yourself so bring on a team or develop a system to put things on autopilot for you.

These are rather extremes.Eventually blocks like these will be torn down by the City's decree so that a private developer can build something of value.

Not sure it would be a popular enough topic, but construction/development would interest me.Or maybe, single family vs multifamily, commercial.

If I could find a private investor to loan at a low cost I would do it, I just haven't developed those kinds of relationships yet.I could get money to put roughly 40% down but I'm not sure if that would help.

You are relatively close to your investments and have developed a great relationship with your contractor.

There are 6 active listings at 200K or less in the entire zip code. 3 are in an awful development - not quite a "war zone", but definitely section 8.

I developed a proprietary database system using Filemaker as a design backbone for our company.

You have to check FHA's database to make sure that the development itself has been approved by the FHA or else no FHA financing which (obviously) negatively affects the market value of the condos within the development.

I have good connections, but I can tell you that over the past year I have developed some new connections that have created real synergy and my business (busyness) has nearly doubled.Please don't underestimate the value of good connections.

The trend toward "relationship banking" is something you need to grasp - develop a good relationship with some bank, or find one that explicitly advertises relationship banking.