Home sales have reached their lowest point since 2010, driven not solely by high interest rates and low inventory but by shifts in household incomes and confidence.As fewer people search for homes, this altered sentiment trickles up, impacting business and investor confidence.

Increasing your construction budget by a small amount can have an enormous impact on your overall construction budget, productivity and site safety/insurance premiums.

May not be legal, but doesn't seem like it impacts your situation here. 

I strongly despise when costs of mentorship start to impact the mentee's already limited ability to put a down payment on a property.

Most fail to factor this in.I believe the fact no meaningful tax advantages exist saved you from going down a rabbit hole that would have been adverse to your business more generally.

I believe they likely will talk, they share a back deck and am concerned the different rates may negatively impact the relationship if that scenario played out.

How are you going to navigate deals with adversity? 

YUP very easy work around for this but it does take a lender who will be a little less risk adverse than bigger HML that will simply say no title insurance no loan..

Our market is unlikely to produce outstanding cash flow with the use of a PM and if you are self managing, your cash flow equates to earnings for your efforts.I am hopeful that the high interest rates have had a negative impact on income and that the STR income will improve if rates decrease.  

Just be ready for it to impact your credit in the short term – but, honestly, the relief of not being buried in debt was worth it.