I loved the aspect of creating environments that connected people to the community; in that case it was tourists soaking up the excitement and beauty of Paris.

Although you can assign environments and PCA reports between lenders, banks likely will not accept the report if it was ordered by the buyer.

I don't think you are stepping into a good economic environment.

The environment is totally different.

Buy and hold, providing a safe clean environment for people to live in at a profit.  

@Erick Brownfield My degree is construction management (I graduated from University of Washington), it's in the school with architecture and other built environments.

If you ever wondered how investors in low cap rate environments can make money, that's one way ... in this regard, and many others, cash flow (cap rates) and appreciation (value add) are like different ends of a teeter totter ... as one side goes up, the other side goes down.

This is the best rental environment we've had in the past 6 years.

In this situation I had to used hard money because the lending environment was still pretty tight (Feb 2013) so commercial lenders weren't too excited about distressed investment property.

I told you she really needs to think about creating a safe environment for kids, and this was a complete disaster.