I also wanted to see if anyone had any experience with getting government grants to build affordable rent homes?

Our government has laws restricting lenders from closing loans that are small loan and high cost so many will not touch these even if investor.

It is pretty standard for loan documents to be 100's of pages, so you'll get the hang of it once you find a good/credible lender and gain experience.

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This was due to desirability, affordability, limited supply due to geography and laws protecting open space coupled with very high demand due to net in-migration of high-earners/wealthy people, and perhaps most importantly a diverse job market in recession-proof sectors like education, government, defense, healthcare, etc. not just tech, energy or manufacturing that can be boom/bust. 

Borrowing from yourself is definitely cheaper than giving 15% to the government.

Us, as well as our clients ALL much prefer the security of receiving government guaranteed rent every month rather than unanswered phone calls from cash tenants who are refusing to pay for one reason or another.

The government grossly overstimulated the economy, increased the money supply by 40%, and caused record inflation (in housing, food, energy, everything).

The Government actually LOVES INFLATION.

Conventional and government loans will have to close in the borrowers name for majority of lenders.