I wrote a BP blog that details much of my experience with that property with the premise of break even cash flow, and may answer a lot of your questions here:  https://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs/10042-vacation...If you have any specific questions however about Tahoe or just having properties in the mountains, feel free to reach out directly and I will happy to answer what I can. 

It is hard to find a bunch of LLC's that don't have a web page or any easy way to find them, so the list brokers pass a lot of owners up.

., 210=Single, 220=Duplex, 230=Triplex, 411=Apartments) listed but no way to search for them based on the code on their web page.

Your comments about the loan product are consistent with what we've been hearing, but the product does indeed exist:The HUD guide to the loanA blog post about the FHA Construction to Perm productThe idea of paying cash for the lot is a great one which I hadn't considered, but unfortunately lots here in Brooklyn start at $350k and only go up from there; if we could pay cash for the lot we could put 25%+ down on the whole project!

I came across a old Carlton Sheets creative financing blog ,!

I still read real estate books all the time, listen to podcasts, read blogs, analyze properties, etc.

Hurdlr - It's pretty great so far, not having an actual web site to analyze your data is probably biggest complaint, which they are planning for down the road.  

If anyone has additional info or blogs that talk about this, please post a link.

Here is a link to blogs on the topic with which you are inquiring.  

Searching the forums and blog posts for what you are interested in will give you the most information.