That’s on a whole other level of scamming people.

Hot Rods on Houghton/I-10 is willing to host the event in the upstairs bar/seating area on Wednesday evenings, but it is $200 for less than 20 people, and that is food and drinks included. 

Most people who rent by room want their own bathroom or at most, are willing to share it with one other person.

Sales dollar volume, however, grew 6.1% in Austin to $626 million, while the metro declined 4.8% to $1.32 billion, reflecting softer transaction counts but solid pricing.Buyer activity remained steady, with pending sales rising 14.9% in Austin and 5.8% across the metro.

So the trick is to have multiple people on the job most of the days.

Travel time, investor hours, and education hours don't count toward material participation 

Smaller homes in the city can still work if the HOA has no restrictions.Your next steps: narrow down neighborhoods, run rental numbers now, and keep budgeting without counting on the grant until you get a final answer.

Just points out how ludicrous it is when people with no experience, knowledge and capital believe that by watching upteen hours of puff videos or paying $20k - $50k for telephone access to a failed salesman reading from a script will enable them to uncover properties selling for a fraction of their value and obviously overlooked by the real estate professionals and full time investors active every day.   

Greed makes smart people ask stupidly.  

Also, think out of the box and see how well-situated land or existing buildings can generate revenue without maxing out the buildable square footage/unit count.