Sorry for the exceptionally long post...hoping some of it was helpful to you and others.TJTim,A good friend of mine and investor is not only a big owner in Berkeley, but he's also one of the largest owners of land around UC Merced. 

But condos typically carry with them the largest HOA fees out of the three property types, which can make these investments more costly than they initially let on (more on this later).

Hey guy I know a few of you are involved with multifamily real estate financing, so I thought I would ask here before contacting lenders and putting together a project.What is the largest construction loan I could qualify for with $2m as a down payment/reserve/equity?

I've spent the bulk of my professional life in sales and business development for some of the largest technology companies in the world.

It's the largest REIA in the country and it's also non-profit.I am not currently a member, but I do plan on joining soon.  

well the room name beneath the largest photo certainly is not what I expected that room to be called, but maybe they used it for that other activity :)

They will pay $1,500 per meter (which is approximately 27 light sets).We got approved for $6,000 worth of free lighting for our largest building (4 meters - 10k sf) and it basically covers all of the lighting in the building except those in the lobby.

Seems like who can boast the most about their Midwest location...LOL6 professional sports teams, regional health care center in a 4 state area, federal reserve is up in KC, more shore line on lakes than the Pacific coast in Cali, oh, and I live in the area, LOLHere's an odd stat, most who moved out of MO a few years ago moved to Cali and then, most who moved out of CA moved to MO, guess they decided to come back.....actually not, more moved out of CA and came to MO.Center of the US population is about 50 miles east of me.To housing, it's pretty affordable, tons of 3/2s 90 to 120K, but you can certainly go up, one of (or the) largest home owner occupied is about 10 miles south of me, some tech billionaire building a rock castle.Look for a diversified economy, health, education, manufacturing, tech, financial services and retail to drive your economy, pretty well in that order and growing here.I also think we'll see much smaller less expensive homes built in the future especially in more rural areas, post WWII tract houses, 1,000 - 1,200 sq ft.

Siva that's why if you are going to buy raw land you get with people who know what they are doing.The largest project I have worked on covered 25 acres with an after build value of 150 million dollars and 650,000 sq ft of retail mixed use space.

My largest investment is about 1 hour away from my primary residence & it feels great knowing I can at least have access to a daily update of my property details.