She met with the planning board as the road the parcel connects to is gravel and was seeing the plans to pave.

Couple of key points that really separate the 203k from other products include: - ability to finance up to 6 months of mortgage payments while the renovation is being completed if the whole is listed as uninhabitable by the HUD consultant. 

I believe education is key to making informed decisions and I don't want any client to say "I never knew about that" when working with me.

I think hard money lending would be awesome, I am not at that point yet, but I have worked with several of hard money lenders and I know that if you do hard money lending that you will need a system and guidelines to guide your lending decisions along with enforceable legal documents in case things don’t go as planned you can foreclose and take back the property to recoup your investment.Turn key rentals managed by an honest turn key company could be a good avenue for you but you will need to vet the company and manage the manager.Buying performing notes is also more of a passive investment that could get you maybe an 8-9% return.

Has anyone had success convincing their condo board to allow renters?

Does your yacht have laundry on board?  

I am a board member with Greater Boston Board and have MLSPIn Access for MA.....is there a way I can get RI access cheaper.   

For me personally, understanding how to underwrite a long distance property is the key to my passive income growth, while I wait for the Socal market to stabilize.

The key is to think of this as really two exchanges (unless you sell both buildings as a portfolio - then it could still be one exchange) and using the proceeds to purchase part of a larger asset with the proceeds.  

For example, how do I prove to them that I didn't just acquire a key to an empty building somewhere and showed them a unit that I didn't even own?