Just curious to see how people in this community started when venturing into the land and new construction aspect of investing. 

This may be a good start. 

I have already started researching Andy and reached out to Justin too, thanks for those contacts.

When we started, we broke even.

In my opinion, it's THE best rental to hold in a landlord/investor perspective, AND it is the most complex and detailed to start into. 

Maybe someone from VA can jump in. 

People literally are jumping on those deals I mention in #2 and #3 chasing returns. 

Totally stressed out when starting out, but everything worked out and I repeated the process a few times since.

At 10:30am our cleaner will start knocking on the door.One time we had a guest not leave until 11:00am and we charged him a $100 late fee that Airbnb paid us and we gave him a bad review.Hope that helps!

I only know about the times where this was found out prior to closing, obviously I have no way to know about the times this shady behavior wasn't found out.Since you get a vote in who this tenant is, and it's retail, PSA that commercial lenders (especially the ones offering the best terms...) are starting to vet deals by how 'recession proof' the tenants are, even if they are currently paying on time.