My son and I will sometimes stay in Angel Fire when we fly fish Cimarron Canyon a few miles away.  

My son and his friends will get home from College.

Due to some medical issues with my son, we spent 3 weeks in the hospital and ended up finishing the rehab in about 4 months.As far as funding goes, I simply built a sample deal package based on one of the MANY deals I had analyzed and presented the opportunity to a family member and convinced him that this made sense.  

To summarize a long story: Daughter & her fam moved back home (with wife & I) in 2019 after son-in-law laid off.

Rick Hamrick I was going to the MAREI meetings for awhile but as my son got older it seems like all of his activities take place Tuesday evening.

take a lot in low value areas where houses cost less than replacement cost.. we know those areas.. land is valueless has negative value.take Palo Alto CA and a lot will run you 2 mllion for a 6k sq ft lot to build a sfr.. and the SFR will cost you maybe 750k to build maybe a million its inverse.. everything I build  the lots are usually 1/2 to 1/4 of the total package in value..

He who has the Gold, makes the rules.Here are some Sources that you may know about:Banks (ugh)Credit Unions (hurray)Mortgage Brokers (a good resource)Pension PlansPrivate LendersHard Money Lenders (HML)Credit CardsFamilyFriendsThe SellerA Joint Venture Partners (bad, bad, bad IMHO) (more on why, later)There are more sources which I will continue with in the next post, but I'll end this one here since I was taught by my son that it gets to:TLDR (too long, didn't read)

Oakland is extremely affordable compared to Mountain View and Palo Alto or some other places in the Valley.  

I had the opportunity to spend the day with my son deep sea fishing off of Santa Monica, then we drove up to San Francisco to visit a friend, and when I returned to the post there were a ton of comments.I hoped that this post would get a good discussion going but I didn't expect It to get this many responses.

My husband is a broker, I'm an agent, as is my son, and our real estate company is The Margrave Group.