If you're standing on the lake's edge and staring at the fish swimming around and you want to know them, it's much more difficult to establish that kind of relationship from where you're standing.

If there's enough equity in the property already, cash out refinances and HELOCs are the two most common ways.If it doesn't fall into either of the above two boxes, it may mean that the homeowner is proposing to go underwater on their home for a swimming pool, which probably isn't the best idea.

Just changing some of the largest walls would be a big improvement. 

* What do you do to ensure that the tenant is responsible for security deposit disputes since that is the largest reason for owner lawsuits* How familiar are you with the newly changed laws that can affect you the owner if they are not used correctly?.

The majority of buyers for portfolios are purchasing based on yield, and with portfolio debt at 5-7%, there's not much of a spread.I've sold portfolios for the top 5 largest institutional owners and there has been challenges with contract negotiations.

Since our building does not have common amenities such as hot tub, swimming pool, etc, we knew that families with children would probably opt for one of the other condo buildings that did offer those things.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are the most familiar and largest investors in the mortgage market.

This town lead right to one of the largest lakes and most desirable houseboating/boating/vacation spots in the country.They have put together a team to help improve their economic improvement plan and are working on incentives to bring business and industry to the area (incentives are necessary in California!)

I know the town fairly well and consider one of the city's oldest and largest developers a close friend (and stay at her home near Santa Barbara when in the area).If you are merely looking for udeas in what to do with the land as an owner/developer trying to attract a JV partner/builder, then spell out what you have as the prior poster requested.If you are trying to attract something more, then upgrade your membership to Pro and post in the marketplace section.

AS well I was the largest hard money lender in the state at the time so I was there almost every 60 days.However I did get audited by IRS because of Go ZOne elections and it only lasted 15 miutes. they wanted proof that I derived the majority of my income through RE ... which of course I did..