Think basic, durable furniture that looks good but can withstand college life.4.

Based on your assessment, it feels like the only way for you to buy something now is to make a compromise that you don't want to make or to get out over your skis a bit more than you'd like. 20 years from now, it won't make much of a difference whether you bought something today or two years from now. 

The insurance quote at 5% wind/storm peril basically meant a new roof would be out of pocket for me.2.

Right now I see they have 30% on the basic package, 40% on the Deluxe, and 50% Premium.   

Basically a partnership.

I just used this basic loan calculator:https://www.calculator.net/loan-calculator.html

But basically with a construction loan you will need to have considerable cash involved - most costs need to be paid for and then the bank will reimburse at certain checkpoints.You may want to start with some smaller value adds inside the existing house to maximize rent from the house hack. 

Basically its a big credit card that I can now use for any business related purpose, in my case Ill use it to do more deals.So here is where the 8 unit comes into play.

Hey good folks of BP. I come to you hat-in-hand, looking for the collective expertise I've come to enjoy here. I work for a portfolio lender as their point person for construction loans, and now I'm trying to grow the...

That's separate from actual investing money - the "cover charge," if you will.Wanting to see them in action vs blindly going all-in from the jump w/ RADD IC, my thought process was to get into a c"onsilidated" SDIRA from where other funds were, and knowing those are basically untouchable for quite some time (at least for me), seeing where things went vs. putting in liquid cash from day 1.