These areas are super attractive for investors.It's not hard to see why. 

If not, ride out the 12 months with the hard money lender.People have to make good choices and not over extend themselves just for the sake of buying something they really can't afford or that doesn't make good cash flow.

Quote from @Jaycee Greene: Assuming you pay asking price, I'd estimate the down payment for something like that using a hard money loan (HML) would be around 40% of the purchase price and your monthly payment would be $2,600 with an interest rate in the low 7% range (probably need a 700+ credit score to get that).

I'm sure a lot of hard work went into building it up and cool that you get to reap the rewards!

Since your an estimator are the materials and labor based on facts (i.e. hard costs a labor units) or a guess.Nothing personal but I wouldn't consider anything you wrote there, if I was buying I'd do my own estimate/SOW. 

That’s how I scaled up to 28 SFR without using hardly any of my own money to get the deals.

Getting a house with over an acre of land isn't too hard for a good price out there. 

What drives me to work hard, is knowing that the more I do, the greater the impact on society I can create.

It is hard work but a small team can build them pretty quick.

its most unfortunate that you had to go through this deception and theft from someone who is considered a professional in this business. we definitely appreciate you putting the warning out about this character. as hard as it is to find a reliable experienced contractor nowadays its even harder to find one that's not a crook and a liar and that's truly pathetic.