I have found that to be a good place to start and use to develop your why, your vision, your mission, and your goals.

The city's Development Services Department provides guidelines and registration services.

Between child costs, debt, and just the cost of living, I can barely put food on the table.

The development in just that small time has been tremendous.

I am looking teach myself how to find off market deals and eventually develop a method and script that can be taught to employees as the amount of deals scales. 

I am starting up a small group for investors to analyze and discuss properties with the intention of developing our property analysis skills together.

I can tell you this, if everything is perfect - all syndicate partners have great credit, you have plenty of reserves, relevant experience, a solid business plan and financials, and Feasibility and Environmental Studies completed in the area you are looking to purchase or develop, all with at least 1 US citizen sponsorship... you may be able to get close to 4%... maybe. 

Builders, developers, land investors please chime in!

They can often spot problems that may not be that obvious to you, especially in the beginning.4) Always have backup team members in case one becomes unavailable for whatever reason.Having developed my own local resources in the past, I have learned to have backup for every team member, especially the contractors so if they become unavailable in the middle of your project for any reason, you are not stuck in limbo.

Companies such as Apple & Google are moving in, developments are breaking ground and expanding their footprint creating new opportunities & investors from all areas of the US are starting to fix & flip.