I am now looking to expand my holdings in the Dearborn / Redford area, focusing on single family buy-and-hold with solid cash-flow.  

Ground-up hotels or really any development project has much more that can go wrong in most instances than a hard money loan on a fully-developed project with a solid borrower.  

As for your own sake, my advice is get a really solid idea of what your vacancy rates are like in your area and what market rents are.

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And we both want to work together on building a solid life for our family.

looking for solid contacts for my rental properties.

I have two SFR's with solid tenants so far.  

It sounds like you have a solid game plan and are ready to put the rubber to the road.

While you will never entirely control vacancy, with a solid business plan, there is not reason to fear it.

The one mentioned had an accpted offer put in literally days before I would make mine and was a solid one so I consider that one lost.