A friend and I want to get into development after buying a land.

This Alderman is going to present yet another tenant friendly regulation.There are a lot of reasons why this is tenant friendly, but one of them is you can no longer end month-to-month, even with 30-day notice, unless there's a "good cause," which is described here.Also, now the tenants could have a longer period to pay back the rent and stay in the property.

I happened to become good friends with the realtor that helped us buy our home.

We did not use real estate agents and are using my agent as a transactional agent only for a $1,000 flat fee. 

The fall back answer has been ask friends and family but what if friends and family don't have money to lend.

So the next day we meet with the husband....he seemed friendly but not really motivated or receptive to our offers/interest.

I'm pretty new on this and i would like to learn and use really good tools

We would love also to build a good power team (investor friendly agents, contractors, lawyers, title companies etc.) and would appreciate referrals.Please do not hesitate to share with us any thing that you feel we might find helpful.

It starts a sort of friendly dialogue that establishes a connection.

If you happen to be a close friend or relative to a person with the cash then a private loan would be an option.