19 days seems a little excessive.

We hard money lenders leverage our time and resources by allowing outside, passive investors to participate in our loans along side us - and we of course earn significant fees (mostly paid by borrower, but of course in some way sacrificed by investor) in excess of our return on our own capital.  

However, after I looked at my itemized expenses, it appears that with cutting a lot of the fat that I should be able to slash my expenses by 150K in 2016, at least.

But while there is a shortage of supply and sustained or excess demand, I would expect market conditions to remain in the seller's favour.As for the annual market cycle, yes, you're absolutely correct, while you can see the extra activity of 2016 in the lower chart, the double camel hump is clear for both years.

If this LLC will be wholly owned by yourself I would go that route, and get a fat umbrella policy either way.

Word alert;Look at your comps, the yard size of the comps and the excess land value of the comps to compare the subject property.

This would be my first property and I was wondering if someone could double-check my calculations to see if it's realistic and to see what people's thoughts were on the return itself.After all Expenses are factored in, I'm looking at approximately $130 in excess cash flow.

I just said it doesn't cost you anything to go to work each day either but you still expect to collect that fat paycheck each month don't you?

When talking about timber fat, clear, tall logs before the first branches is what adds up to real money.

We always make the parents co-sign on the lease, therefore, if there is any excessive damage, we can go after the parents for repairs.