You will need to learn all of these components of a development deal: land acquisition, site selection and sourcing, zoning and entitlements, architectural design management, deal underwriting, financing, construction, leasing, property management, and sale or asset management.I would suggest working for companies that already develop the types of projects that you are ambitious to build in the future. 

I'm not sure if it's designated this way, but I'd say it's a tertiary Seattle market, but probably too far for any Seattle commuting.

A lot young folks are moving in from the outer suburbs (where once their grandparents/parents lived) and buying houses to renovate and live in Detroit.https://www.michigandaily.com/section/news/detroit-housing-market-sees-growth-attracts-young-people-cityhttps://www.citylab.com/design/2018/04/can-detroits-suburbs-survive-a-downtown-revival/558764/

This is a wood-fired fireplace and I was thinking along the same lines with the decorative brickwork or temporary design to block off the front portion. 

How did you learn to design or pick out the colors and styles you used?

This entity is for raising 3rd party capital, though I am not sure whether it should be a disregarded or elect C-Corp designation for tax purposes.

These meetings are more designed to gather people that struggle with wholesaling.Indeed... other than struggling wholesalers you have the newbies that get convinced REI meetings is the answer, just like you are being convinced now... then the other REI frequenter is your traditional hard money lender that tries to make money on innocent young investors eager to start, and anyone else that tries to make money off of it somehow.Lastly you have a few cash buyers that know nothing about marketing that desperately need a property to flip.

. * Try to make up for the corner you cut by not hiring a designer.

Example, we stopped buying barstools that have nuts and bolts to tighten and switched to a single piece metal design.

The report shall be in the form designed, printed and distributed by the director of revenue and shall contain the following:  (1) The year, model, make and abandoned property identification number of the property and the owner and any lienholders, if known;  (2) A description of any damage to the abandoned property noted by owner, lessee or property or security manager in possession of the real property;  (3) The license plate or registration number and the state of issuance, if available;  (4) The physical location of the property and the reason for requesting the property to be towed;  (5) The date the report is completed;  (6) The printed name, address and phone number of the owner, lessee or property or security manager in possession of the real property;  (7) The towing company's name and address;  (8) The signature of the towing operator;  (9) The signature of the owner, lessee or property or security manager attesting to the facts that the property has been abandoned for the time required by this section and that all statements on the report are true and correct to the best of the person's knowledge and belief and that the person is subject to the penalties for making false statements;  (10) Space for the name of the law enforcement agency notified of the towing of the abandoned property and for the signature of the law enforcement official receiving the report; and  (11) Any additional information the director of revenue deems appropriate.  6.