As somebody who doesn’t have family in real estate, I came up a plan of first making sure my bills were taken care of and that I wiped out any consumer debt I had.

But any agent doing even a moderate amount of business can tell you, the average consumer of buyers and sellers need tons and tons and tons of hand holding to buy or sell a house. 

What I'm saying is that, I believe in no source of income discrimination, but the regs that are involved with section 8 and the approval processes are complicated and time consuming. 

It's amazing how much water can be consumed by a running toilet that a tenant never cares to elevate to you (as they're not paying for it). 2.)

You need to know with the proposed hotel the track record of the sponsor with new build development, what existing product is on the market, how is it performing, how much new builds are slated to come online, are they national flag brands or more regional to mom and pop in nature, is the site you are developing an A++ compared to existing buildings in the area, what rent per room would be needed to justify the development and does the consumer base in the area and travelers support it for the amenities and quality of construction you will be providing.

If the damage also happened on bean/column joints, it will be more time consuming. 

Be patient as it is time consuming and lots of documentation. 

American consumers are becoming wealthyThe figure below supports the optimistic picture for the US economy. 

We had to replace the rad feeds in a 'winterized' 2800 sq ft old 1890's home & it was expensive & time consuming work.

Most of that time I have worked for large nationwide lenders through Consumer Direct channels.