Hoping this time I can achieve my goals of purchasing a property.

What I would do in this is create some sort of literature (Canva.com offers a lot of easy formats) to talk about the project and what you're looking to achieve.

I currently put contingencies on the following milestones:Contingencies (able to achieve the following milestones)Site PlanningBase MapSite Plan (End of 2021)Conceptual Site Plan (Beginning 2022)ArchitectureFeasibility Design (End of 2021)Conceptual Design (March 2022)Entitlements & PermitsPre-Application (Beginning 2022)Application (mid-late 2022)**Buyer Submits Refundable DepositBuilding Permit and Inspections (End of 2022)Final Approval to Build for purposes of a banquet hall (End of 2022)**Funding Land Acquisition General ContractorSite and Civil Work (End of 2022)Certificate of Occupancy (Late 2023)Is this the correct approach or is there a better way to structure this offer to take on the least amount of risk?

I’m just south of Franklin and I am motivated to find some nice people and potential make some deals in the future!

For example, are you the kind of person where, if you invested a few/several thousand in a course, that'd you'd be motivated to the point of not failing because of that skin in the game?

Either go off market through a wholesaler or FSBO, look for a SFR or a duplex if those are the metrics you're trying to achieve, or downgrade your neighborhood expectations.

So being inexperience, I would love to find a mentor/coach that is willing to work with me being new, but I also have a lot of motivation and want to succeed amd learn.

Ask an attorney of course, but the protection you are after can be achieved by putting the properties in a trust also.

The main difference I have found when mailing multifamily owners vs. single family owners is that there is usually less motivation with multifamily owners and the conversation before they are ready typically takes sometime.

Love to see hard work being rewarded and folks achieving financial goals!