Contractors provide a finished product , we are not labor suppliers . 

Personally, if I was living in a hotel I'd want to move more quickly too. 

Any suggestions for a good real estate lawyer in Alabama would be appreciated.This person has a very large legal judgement against him.  

Build a home and then purchase that product with a personal conventional or FHA loan? 

My main goal is to understand what types of loan products are available, and we are now more open to analyzing out of state purchases.We are eager to make our first purchase within the next 3-6 months.

This is probably not the way you're "supposed" to used QB but I didn't want to get two softwares - one for business and one for personal.  

With that amount of equity you'd likely qualify for a HELOC on your primary residence to access that equity to buy an investment property or to buy a new primary and rent out your current home - the latter is what I do personally and all of this is what I offer my clients professionally. 

Someone recently suggested that I used a person (unknown to me but referred) to use their credit to help be refinance.

Also some of my contractors did not want to bid due to parking challenges of mission beach.It came out fairly nice, but the cost was crazy and I personally did way more construction work than anticipated due to getting $crewed by 2 separate handymen.   

I ended up paying over $2000 as a start up business with no income and not even receiving a final product which could be utilized.