I am in Brownsville and by the LPG port every single day.The LPG port is absolutely enormous and will bring a lot of jobs to the area.

Allowing people to “know the space” before they come out will save you an enormous amount of time by prescreening people who have no interest in that rental’s layout.

Similar for a shower with a proprietary enclosure and a Schluter system and fixtures which bear an enormous discount to plumbers and installers.Paying the GC on day one for these things does not reduce the risk to the GC unless it is established in the contract that materials are paid upon delivery to the site.

I sold my largest MF on contracts, otherwise my tax bill would have been enormous. 

Whether is taking his "course", paying for the self written articles about his success or aka writing "puff pieces", buying fake Instagram followers, sitting on FB marketplace trying to get someone to pay for a house they don't know is condemnable and pay to have DJ remodel it and DJ never completing the remodel,  him spending an enormous time defending himself in small claims court, and threatening charges on  people that don't know law so they pay what he wants.All of those examples came from either my observation, experience, or other peoples reviews of him.The guy rented me a condemnable property.

I am somewhat unamerican in my lack of burning desire to amass enormous net wealth and live by a thought of owing it))In the end I want to thank you again for such a detailed reply and your insights! 

Most out-of-state investors will have an enormously difficult time navigating that process from afar, especially in a market like Detroit.We help folks with it but our projects generally require investors to be cash buyers.

The only thing I would add is that if I could do it over I would focus on standing out without an enormous furnishings expense.

Downtown Madison (35758) will always have enormous demand, but the area doesn't cash flow. 

VRBO is starting to look like an enormous pyramid scheme.