What are the areas with high concentration of blue collar workers to fulfill the above-referenced projects? 

I'll have to contact the town about there future wastewater plans on Monday.

If BP spends some money on iOS dev contractors to fix app crashes, I'll sign up for the paid membership :) @David Greene, you have all the right connections to make this happen (you came to give a talk at my work on 5/30).Gediminas

But I'm tending to agree, that by the time we rent a year, I'll have spent as much as half a rental home in some Midwest markets... so we're opting to keep the house we're in for another year and reevaluate as we go.

I’m afraid I’ll end up stressing about saving a few bucks only to end up with delays that will slow the process of getting my units finished, rented and profitable.

Have briefly discussed it a little with a friend of mine who's in the mortgage business but he thinks I'll have to put up a larger down payment(30%) which is meehhhhh for an SFR.

@Steve BabiakI have a purple kitchen I'll be working on later this year or next year.

., with min loan amt of 50K at 12% for a renovation (Fix/Flip) package...then following the BRRR (not sure how long their seasoning period is...but I'll ask) we can do a refi at their 6.1 conventional rate.Conventional loan: McGloan, 30 yr fixed rate, 4.8% (not bad)Im concerned with interest rates going up that perhaps we should lock in that low 4.8% rate (conventional loan), and pay out of pocket for the renovations ourselves?

perfect I'll be there, thank you 

I think I'll do both!