I do contracting ONLY for the experienced investors, who have already learned there lesson of the $10 per hr craigslist "contractor", and want to move professionally and with mutual respect, and I do it at a razor thin margin not even really making it worth while, just to bolster my volume for leverage with material manufacturers.

For instance here they will generally not finance post and pier foundation houses, and manufactured housing can be problematic.

Manufacturers have it down as the life expectancy of their products.

I know that the large manufacturing facility should be doing more jobs if the articles in the paper are any indication with the new lone investments.

I'm finally dedicating more time to my passion for real estate investing so I figured I'd drop my intro here now before I start posting.I'm 35 years young, a 15 year combat veteran, and currently own/operate a gun store in North Las Vegas as well as a CNC Manufacturing Facility that contract manufactures for firearm makers across the US and a few other continents as well.I grew up in Waterbury, CT and own properties there, as well as MT and NV.When I first got stationed in Las Vegas a little over a decade ago it was during the real estate boom and as a side gig I worked with property managers and flippers for a few years until the market crumbled.  

I have grown to like the NW Indiana market vs IL due to manufacturing/industrial companies moving across the border, landlord friendliness of IN, cheaper taxes and it will also give me the opportunity to get started sooner with the price of homes.

Its been years, maybe a decade since I revisited the site but my mom mentioned she often gets calls from people looking to buy the residential property in Highlands county for years now just as well, and proposed we built something on it.I'm more into the mediterranean and/or art deco style homes, but with materials price and the current buildup to an inevitable proxy civil war/collapse in america, dont find it worth it to start building a mansion there although the surrounding properties sure do look quite fancy.We were thinking of going the 'customized' manufactured home route.

This program has typically been used with new build hotels, large scale developments and manufacturing. 

I am a commercial real estate lender and I focus on CMBS originations. 10 year term fixed rate non recourse deals with 25-30 year amort  is what I lend on for multifamily, industrial, hotels, retail, self storage, manufactured housing, office, etc.

As a newbie this kind of seems to be the distant future but I love to see how you plan and strategy is laid out.I have spent my career as a cost analyst in manufacturing, it's interesting to see assumptions laid out in terms of land development.