Right now I working on a design that has less lead time to build, but the company has never done it before and it’s like pulling teeth because they are set in their old ways of doing things inefficiently and have done a bad job at changing to new tech, on a very tightly controlled schedule and budget program.

If you're just starting out, cut your teeth on the FSBO ads online.

With lending regulations as they are now, I'd think it would be easier to pull hen's teeth than to get an agent to carry back and secure it as a second in a commercial or residential transaction.

It is hard to imagine that laws such as these have any "teeth."

Columbia is a great area to cut your teeth in RE.

Dude, I applaud your efforts, but that's not the kinda deal you want to cut your teeth on.Make the phone calls, see if you can find the right guy to partner with or flip it to, but I don't know of anybody with that kinda cash that would hand it to a new investor on a loan.

The same may apply to any person acting as a trustee.Most attorneys won't mind being named as an additional insured as they may then administer loss proceeds for the benefit of the buyer, this of course going along with a properly devised installment sale contract (which is about as rare as hen's teeth, LOL).Another way to address insurance issues in an installment contract is an assignment of loss proceeds from the seller to the buyer.

How do I cut my teeth on investing while learning in my own back yard?

Increasing the amortization also just violates all kinds of prudent practices, your property could depreciate faster than the loan would be reduced placing the borrower underwater, tax issues would likely arise (deferring principal) an ongoing interest expense and in an installment sale, which is what seller financing is, probably wouldn't come close to being seeing at arm's length, valid or as a legit transaction. 50 years is just as silly.There are conventional loans at 40 years and those are rare as hen's teeth and were more of an experiment to making homeownership affordable.

(regular tenants do not want to have to deal with that).A sticky subject I get asked on my commercial listings is tenant base.Meaning race and profile of the tenant.I can't comment on that because of fair housing laws but they can generally see from the names and go from there.Just like people that tip at a restaurant it is a given that certain types on average give zero to a small tip.The same can be said for a certain tenant demographic that can be real demanding yet you have to pull teeth to get money from them.I am not saying all are that way.Just saying with percentages it's often more the case than not.So while it is a TABOO topic it is looked at in a buying transaction.