Seeing many parallels to "the community" here (you know, the ones who follow the biggest go-giver ever himself).

Firefly is at the center of that effort — one of the biggest IPOs for an Austin-area company in the past decade at $868M is growing into a new HQ and plans to increase its investment in the city.Story Highlights- Firefly Aerospace was approved for up to $1M in incentives in Cedar Park.- The rocket and lunar lander company plans to expand and occupy a new HQ.- Hundreds of additional jobs promised.

As a realtor, I see buyers being much more sensitive to total cost, financing incentives, and maintenance predictability, which makes new construction much more attractive now than in the past.

But at the end of the day, the biggest alignment will come from having real money in the deal.I understand the point of an acquisition fee. 

But to the original question in this post, having to come up with those funds often becomes the biggest challenge to deal flow.Just yesterday, I came across a property that I could have gotten for less than $200K, put another $200K into it, and easily would have made it worth over $600K...

Was it credit, experience, ARV, or something else that stopped your funding? I see a lot of good projects miss out on financing just because they don’t fit the standard box. What’s been your experience?

Sales have slowed amid high mortgage rates, rising insurance costs ($6,000–$7,000 annually on average), and affordability challenges, leading builders to offer aggressive incentives averaging 7.25% of the purchase price—up from 6.1% earlier in the year.

Since I buy in desirable areas, no rent reductions or incentives.

Builders like Mattamy are giving extremely good incentives to buyers.

Appraisal delays, title issues, underwriting backlogs, what’s cost you the most time waiting for a deal to close? Curious which lenders move the fastest in your experience.