This bid only included the tear off of the existing EPDM and to replace with new  EPDM.

How would you advise someone looking to get started with note investing to do so in 2018 given your two points above if they don’t have any pre-existing relationships in the space?

Our county governments aren't big in regulation.  

I am planning to buy another house to move into the new house and then sell the existing house.

Just my opinion, if it is jot in black and white aka signed contract/lease, it doesn’t exist.

I believe you have missed a crucial step here that possibly puts you in a bad position where it might not be possible to deny the wife accessDid either party give the 30 days notice required to terminate the existing lease?

. :)The closest to this that now exists, for the cash heavy but income modest, is buying out the PMI upfront on a conventional mortgage, rather than ever making a monthly PMI payment.

@James Wise  Per your request.Coming out of the late 1800s most of the major west coast cities that we know and love like LA  SF  PDX SEATAC were all subdivided by the same engineering firms  at least SF and Portlandia were.. this led to land speculators in the day going out into the Western deserts and other remote areas.. buying what were large land holdings , Spanish land grants and other lands that were not govmit owned.. then in the day you could simply create massive subdivisions buy doing basic surveys off of the base and meridian lines.. which all of the west is surveyed off of... this is called section land.then create these massive tracks of lots.. some were like up in the apple valley, Lancaster,  Barstow type areas mainly 5 acre tracts.. and were done on a grid pattern.. streets in ( mapped but not built)  and of course spiraled out of a small little town off the railroad track or the few roads that existed in those days.. you took your map and recorded it at the county, county was happy they just got 5 thousand lots they could send out tax bills on..

Bezos is building a $50 mansion here and is doing a $15 million renovation on his already existing house here.

Pull some equity out of your existing properties, use a heloc for part, go to a local bank see what they have to offer, private lenders etc.