Permits and drawings are all approved and newly highly vetted contractors are ready to go.

You've got some major hurdles that will be quite challenging as a 1st time DIY project, and you will need licensed professionals to sign off on some things for permits: Structural (determining whether or not the wall you want to remove is load bearing and if so engineering a header and determining the framing layout for the new wall/door) Plumbing work will require a licensed plumber to pull the permitAny electrical alterations should be done by a licensed professional, a master electrician will be needed to pull a permitThere may be certain steps that you can DIY, such as GCing the project, demo, framing (following an engineer's drawings), sheet rock, tile, installing new fixtures/appliances, finishes, etc. but for the 3 big ones above you will need to bring in licensed pros if you're going to pull permits (which you definitely should).

It draws international travelers who want to stay as close to Disney as possible, so Emerald Island is in a great location for investments. 

Hello All,I spoke with the Construction Code Office of Jersey City this week.I believe that the following is the way that construction permitting works in Jersey City;-I deliver two sets of drawings stamped by an architect to the Zoning Office of Jersey City.

I don't have consistent hard metrics that I go by, I usually hunt for deals that are below market and provide a 12% or greater projected COC (I always plan for the first year to be lowwer and then subsequent years to grow as rents increase) but I'm relatively flexible. 

Professor Henry believes that in the medium to long term the draw to human interaction and innovation will draw us back to offices in some scale.  

That's basically where I draw the line.

Whether it's rent credit or lease options, people seem to really love the idea of owning their own home and it will draw people to your property.

If you build up to 20% equity in your home and then can draw up to 90% LTV, then that is only 10% you have access to which is what you would have spent the next 6 months putting in there. 

I do know HMLs that lend to new investors right now, but you still need to have capital even at 100% financing to handle closing costs, fees, draws etc.