A lot of people may disagree with me, and that's fine, we all have our methods, but I also come from a sales background with a lot of cold calling and cold emailing, so I've had a lot of practice at getting rejected and disarming prospects that want anything but to talk to you.As far as ways to get contact information, I use Propstream, which is great for getting property and owner information, comps, distressed situations, etc. and then you can skip trace them within Propstream to get the contact information.

I was told I could put in for a permit. 

Here are a two real situations that I'm having trouble determining:1. paying off short-term hard money when commercial financing was delayed  -- this seems permissible since it's not long term debt2. performing improvements on rental properties -- these were planned but delayed due to COVID-19 has put these on hold.Any tax pros or attorneys here than can better assist to what is and is not permitted use for our EIDL loan?

You should always consider apartments as an option for your prospective tenant, because if it costs them more to make payments on the mobile home plus pay the lot rent, they might just rent an apartment instead.

With more and more people WFH now and the trend set to continue I think cities stand a good chance of becoming exclusively young, hipster, student centers rather than real prospects for people to live and work long term.

I have seen it too many times that a building inspector finds existing code violations during construction and/or deficiencies that need to be fixed to close the permit out.

They are likely a high risk of holding over or scaring prospective tenants away.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For custom homes or new homes, here is the basic formula for cost:Lot cost + Lot prep cost + utility connection cost + custom house + permit/architecture fee if you want your own design etc = Total CostIf you are going to get construction loan, there is also carrying cost.

I imagine that pre-foreclosure and absentee owners are getting bombarded with with thousands of letters/calls, so I want to make sure that I am investing my prospecting time and money in the best way possible by staying away from over-saturated areas.

We are also considering using his services to guide us through permitting, etc., as he has designed a similar facility and knows the Gwinnett County process well.