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The  portfolio stuff does not so they make the rules up as they go along, but those loans comprise less than 10% of all loans.

Likely, you will need to find a property in need of significant work.

I suppose if we had hundreds of loans out, this would be impractical.

It hasn't been an easy ride for lots of folks building in Cape Coral over the past several years, but one silver lining is the property values have nearly doubled since Covid, though the market has cooled recently. 

Roth IRA's are one investment tool but they are not that aggressive, real estate is a lot more aggressive but it also comes with more risk than a Roth.

But one of them getting a better paying job is probably your most reliable solution.

There are a lot of restrictions.

If you purchase over that limit, you just put 25% of the difference down.  

Even if the owner seems like a really nice person, they will micromanage the builder and not like the specs of the house the builder needs to do, and/or the timing in which the builder gets it done, etc.