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Thank youHey Steven, I moved to Columbus a few years ago (from Portland, Oregon which was super expensive) to become a full time real estate investor, and ever since, I've completed quite a lot of BRRRRs, flips, and own a successful rental portfolio here in Columbus Ohio.

While this isn’t ideal from a transparency perspective, it’s a foreseeable outcome when the regulation doesn’t directly impact flipping economics.The Bottom Line: While AB 968 may promote transparency in theory, its real impact will likely create more complexity and hurdles for sellers of distressed properties and newer market participants rather than significantly altering the business strategies of established flippers.

The city told us that the previous owner of the house owned a lot of land made up of 6 houses, he submitted a subdivision application with the city but they declined it and told him all the requirements he still had to meet.

If you need more guidance, the Cumberland County Assessment Office can also help—don’t hesitate to reach out! 

We already have most of the 2nd down payment saved, but would like to be conservative for now and keep more in reserves.Longer-term goal: Scale steadily but conservatively.

If you want more information on that, let me know.

Can you provide more details on what the property is like?

80% no seasoning on a refi is pretty good and becoming the market standard (75% currently is the standard in a lot of places)If you go coventional, I'm told you can get up to 90%. 

In my area you can buy buildable land for 20k/acre, so stuff that goes into a conservancy easement is probably more like $3k per acre.