If you are providing champagne or wine, would we need a license for that to do so? 

So you are actually disproving your point rather than proving it.

Real estate is not the stock market and it's called buy & hold and not buy & sell for a reason.I did sell a few properties about 10 years ago when I learned the hard way that going into cheaper neighborhoods was not the right strategy for me, so that was basically a strategy correction and it was necessary, but also costly both in terms of dollars and time.

I wouldn’t call myself “wealthy” by comparison standards, but I’ve made a lot of progress on net worth over the last 5 years.

That said, this might not work for everyone, so a fix-and-flip loan can be a great alternative.My team and I work with investors nationwide who face these same decisions.

He may know some GCs so I'll reach out- but meantime if you need an inspector you can trust for before, during or after construction, he's a Godsend. 

After my initial email contact with my mentor I wrote out a list of questions for our phone call and we worked our way through them during our call.

Yes, you can “save” interest by paying off a loan faster - SO WHAT?  

Tonight I'm going to look over my statements versus our interactions and finally make the call.

The landscape is just different than even the last 3 years with people making bad calls but getting saved by significant appreciation.