(Andrew R Fidler is Vice President of PIN - Property Investor's Network, Secretary and Board Member of OREIA, involved in his local government helping landlords, investors, and realtors cooperate with our government services for mutual success. 

Quote from @Sean Bramble: Lots of conflicting opinions in here … question for all of you: what drives your decision to build vs buy, or vice versa?

I’m thinking once it gets signed by the president the next day it will be available to apply, might be Monday.

And vice versa.Good luck! 

Also keep in mind that the deal is more important than the location, you can buy a terrible deal in a great market and vice versa.

I am also President of Toledo Property Investors Network, a dynamic group of experienced investors and learners. 

My mentoring clients, when they join IWG, get introduced by me to the president of the lending company in a three-way call and then the client decides if you want to use my lender of rather find your own. 

Keep 6 months of reserves for all the things that could go wrong.I’m a full-time wholesaler in the Baltimore-DC area and president of MAREIA, a local investor association.

I listened to an interview with Doug Bibby who is the President of the National Multifamily Housing Council on a podcast called Leading Voices in Real Estate. 

So if you were presenting on Kodak, for example, and started off with "Kodak was founded in 1888..." he'd sharply cut you off and say "you're sitting in Kodak's Corporate Office, the CEO, COO, Vice Presidents are all here...and you're telling them when their company was founded?