The ABC's of Real Estate Investing has some great tips on evaluating markets and forming a team to help find market and submarket information that might give clues to current status, future growth, planned developments, major highway expansions, progressive agendas like building bullet trains to connect cities like Chicago and Milwaukee.  

Would love to hear what you found out about purchasing/ developing land in Perry Park.

Plus everyone puts too much weight on the $/sf cost... because that doesn't include land development, paved parking lots, curbing, stormwater sewers, possible retention pond, civil engineer, architect, etc.  

It is owned by a builder/developer who happens to own the units.

Obviously the size of the lot will dictate how many units I could ultimately get in there but this zoning designation is pretty crazy in what it allows for developers to do.

Develop a system to find motivated sellers who agree to terms with no money down.

I had to prep  for  about an hour by listening to a few minutes of my Think and Grow Rich Audiobook and then i listened to the BP podcast on door2door techniques.

There is really no way to use a stacking technique here, as is at least theoretically possible in the case of lease-options.

He's employed me to list 4 private bedrooms on AirBnB, and to develop a way to automate the rental system. 

The neighborhoods are getting more and more safe through community development.