My company owns 2 story mixed use property.

Facility requirements: HUD requires a management company run the operations, but now allows for 100% of the beds to be private pay(versus a mix of medicade, medicare, and VA).THIS IS FOR ALFs ONLY.Typically, there is a mix though as you don't usually see 100% private pay.

I am not tech-savvy, especially when it comes to hardware.

I find it is very hard to make good decisions when you mix up your personal plans and goals with your business goals.

As noted in the last post, the Mortgagee and all the interests that represents is not the only interested party in the mix either.  

Yvette Chung my understanding is:RM-1 is multi family zoning RSA3-5 is residential mixed use.

FCI seems to have mixed reviews on here, and I've seen SN mentioned, but a search on BP didn't turn up anything for Madison.

There are some high quality folks in the mix and the value is having them as part of your network.I think that the most important lesson to learn is how to find people willing to invest $100K at a time when you have a deal to fund. 

For #5, note that there are nowadays "tech startup" solutions to financing one's primary residence (see Unison and Point.com), but the money comes from private institutions or private sources--the money is not "crowdfunded" for many reasons--in part, because there are a lot of strange privacy issues (imagine if your home was partially owned by 50 other people.

Better grades of residential windows (but not hi tech) carry a U value of .33.