My guess is though that as you and I suspect it is the "flovor of the day" as you say and a pretty bad flavor at that. 

I guess the leg work and he fact of being remote scares me, but so does any investment!

My guess is that it would need to be a househack-type situation, as VA loans can only be used for primary residences.

Quote from @Austin Wolff: I don't have hard numbers, but would guess less than 10%.

My guess is that Evolve does and when you cancel with them, you will have to start from scratch anyway.  

I'm being told that the area will have zoning laws within the next 5 years so I guess it would be who of me to get this thing going.

Cutting down on gov't spending and the pulling jobs back into the US should help offset some of the tariffs, but it will come down to which items exactly do get tariffs put on them and to what degree the tariffs are (10%/20%/50%).Overall, my guess is that rates will go down for early next year, rise during the middle quarter-third of the year, then fall slowly afterwards.

In that case, I guess I don't understand why you would even want to spend money on any such system.

That plan is obviously going to take 10-15 years to complete and will be obsolete by the time it's done....but something is better than nothing I guess!

These are areas GPs can control and I guess choosing not to.