At the end of the job, I requested to finish a few details before leaving for the day, their speed increase 4x. 

High speed internet, nest thermostat, ring doorbell, etc.  

I rent out the rooms.What I’ve learned is having a room w a private bathroom is golden for my tenants they typically come from other roommate situation sharing a bathroom, having a private bathroom they see it as a luxury..Typically when rooms are rent out utilities are included, high speed internet is most important Utility for them..

I plan on continuing to save for more rentals, but I figure if I can use the equity in my primary to speed things up a bit, that might not be such a bad thing.  

Cali government has nothing better to do than mess w/landlords, instead of stop spending on a high speed rail....

What Ryan said ,it’s also changing faster than the speed of light.eg Rural north and south around 10th was /is very impoverished but the City has bought at least a dozen properties along Rural primarily south of tenth Re promise zone ,so a lot of really good things happening around here.To make the numbers work now you kinda got to jump Rural where previously you would have to been very adventurous Hope this helps a little 

Some owners are good at schmoozing  and good will in a certain light to get things approved faster and others are not.There are liaison types who do cost money but can usually help speed things along.

If you stretch a year here and there I'm old enough to be his grandma and he's right about our generation not keeping up, the tech and the language around it are changing at light speed and we need to stay on top of it to be successful.

I’m running low on resources at the moment and need to find additional help to speed up the work.I prefer to be the GC myself as I’ve found I save a ton of $$$ that way.

The broker is telling you how awesome the deal is and you want to get one under your belt, so you convince yourself that the market will keep increasing in value at it's current speed.