My "business" is the accumulation of income producing assets which will help my family achieve financial security and leave a legacy for my family and for the causes we believe in.

@Carlton Bynum I found a local granite installer that I can get a few different granites styles for $30/ft^2

Comfort level and investing style varies among investors depending on objectives.

To answer your question, I would not make this part of my business model if there was an easier way to achieve the same results or greater with less headache.

I am not looking to charge crazy interest, but rather to partner with someone who's strategy is house flipping and who needs capital and enable them achieve their goals while at the same time working towards mine.Appreciate any advice/comments.Jason.

My final goal is financial independence and early "retirement", and I hope to achieve that through many different investments, real estate included.

That being said, you need to have clear goals and reasonable expectations before you get started.If you know what you want to achieve, why you want to achieve it, and how you plan to go about achieving it, you can pick someone who is best suited to help you.

I think this approach may cost me a few worthwhile leads, but its a choice that I think will help balance the time invested in marketing against the results achieved.

I am convinced that there are not many if any, who can put a multi-family unit on this piece of land which will meet all the City guidelines successfully; I managed to achieve this on a very similar site, which was completed in July 2014, only because of my training and coming from Europe where we have a lot of instances like this there. 

I shiver at the thought of 30 rentals so I really prefer smaller number but higher yields and a good strategy of achieving that...