Some of these are high volume REO offices.

Investment lending is a small niche within conventional lneding, and 95% of mortgage originators won't give you accurate answers.Find the lenders/brokers that are doing a good lending volume in your market.

Starting from the ground up:  Pro:  Many builders can/will offer better pricing especially if you can bring volume and/or have investors funding builds - wholesale pricing = immediate equity + appreciation = higher profitability. 

I don't plan to have the volume to hire my own crew either.  

I'll work for free, I don't care.I purchased Volume ll of the multifamily millionaire, I'm sure that'll help.Thoughts? 

It also posses another problem which is when you need to return product or material that is defective or damaged you are working with suppliers who have insanely high volumes and little relationship with the purchaser.

Think volume! 

Make sure you have a good pre-approval from a LOCAL LENDER (If agents see stuff from Quicken Loans, Loan Depot, etc. they will often take a pass as these huge volume mortgage brokers are known for 60-day closings).  

A lot of height/independence height townhomes/houses are this way and there you will find national builder to customer low volume builder to smaller builder building houses on pier and beam .Also (to me) there isnt anything call high end builder ..instead high end design ... cause all houses will be built by same set of folks BUT the differentiating factor will be in deign and/or layout ... pay close attention to that one and sit closely during civil/architecture drawings. 

This one can cut both ways, as sometimes a contractor will have discounted buying power because of the volume they typically bring.