I had more than one appraiser comment that the CLV market is a declining market in their reports and when lenders see that they often cut leverage.A lender will ask for your credit, experience, and maybe liquidity. 

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I typically am working with suppliers of red iron beams, but I would imagine suppliers would still have something.https://www.engineeringtoolbox... is a great free resource for information on different types of materials.Hope this helps at least some!

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I can't say whether the others out there are good or bad (and there seem to be a lot of them cropping up) as I haven't had any experience with them. 

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Any experiences, the good, the bad, and the ugly would be appreciated. 

If you or anyone else has personal experience with quantifiable evidence of successfully owning a small or medium size business on an absentee/passive basis I would be interested in learning about it.  

Can a person own two homes with two VA loans and refinance one of the homes  into a conventional loan freeing up some of the entitlement which would enable you to buy a 3rd home under the VA loan?

Knowing you will close or they will get “free money”.