for 26k.. was not buildable but it was right behind a home depot shopping center and within 1/4 mile of freeway and freeway off ramp.fast forward 20 years and the Graton Indians bought the land next door for 240 million and built the largest Indian gaming casino in Northern CA if no all CA... right next to me.. they brought in all the infrastructure so that now I have sewer and water paved road and stop light within one lot of me.Along with the city bringing me into the city limits and zoning me mixed used resi.. looking at commercial on the bottom and 50 plus condos on top.. market value in that area about 3 mil. now... but hey it never cash flowed a day I had to pay 300 a year in prop tax'  Prop 13.. and mow it once in while.. so its for all those reasons I think one needs to be somewhat of a risk taker and visionary.. now 26k for me was not much risk.. but it could have continued to be worthless non buildable piece of land..  

Coming from an immigrant Indian background, education is considered the most important thing and if I look at my extended family they are full of doctors, PhD's, lawyers, entrepreneurs and all of them are highly educated and all of them highly successful.

Largo, Seminole and Indian Rocks Beach are great areas. 

You can easily focus on one area and become an expert on the local STR scenarios.But there is all the difference in the world between STR in Indian Rocks Beach (extremely friendly) and neighboring Belleair Beach (totally banned).

Indians are the single largest foreign investors in Dubai owning around 20% of the units and 14% of the investment amount.

I'm an engineer from Pax River (connected to Dahlgren, St Inigoes, Indian Head).

Same answer as previous post...NETWORK - ATTEND TRADE SHOSW such as REOMAC in Indian Wells, CA next week.

Any investors in Indian Head or in Charles County MD general?

If you're familiar with areas in Phoenix, I'd estimate 16th St and McDowell C class area, 16th St and Indian School B class and 16th St and Camelback A class.

In those buildings we placed tenants such as the Federal Government Agencies, State Government Agencies, Indian tribes, small businesses, unions, doctors, dentists, stores, hair salons, etc.