The Code is designed to protect the public and maintain confidence in the real estate profession. 

The entire system is designed to collapse, it is.

What’s helped me keep flips profitable is focusing on buying deeper rather than trying to save the deal through design or construction shortcuts.

It does look like it needs a lot, me personally I would hire a designer and arm her with pinterest or other STR basements for inspiration. 

And similar, you can spend time to design a logo, print buisness cards, set up a website, creating LLCs - or you can go and buy properties instead.. 

Welfare need be for it's original design, 1 step above death.

That legislation package is specifically designed to benefit the consumer at the expense of the finance industry.

A few year's ago I sent out 5,000 nicely, professionally designed 5" x 8 " post cards, at about $1.00 per postcard for $5,000 to a general list.

To have a performing Airbnb, you need to easily invest $30-60k between furniture, designer fees etc. without even considering hot tub or other big amenities.

Most of our mezz placements involve direct collaboration with senior lenders early in underwriting to align rights, remedies, and repayment waterfalls before closing.For sponsors who aren’t ready for a full mezz structure, we often design preferred-equity or structured-debt hybrids that achieve similar leverage with less legal friction.It’s definitely not a “plug-and-play” product — but when structured correctly, mezz capital can unlock projects that would otherwise sit idle in today’s tight credit market.