Second, if you're constantly refinancing (or "harvesting your equity", what a stupid term), that's like being a minority partner in a business, buying yourself a majority stake, then selling back to your partner so you can buy another business while still managing the first.Maybe this stuff works for rehabbers or whoever, but it seems counterintuitive for long term landlords.

@Annette AmmarellYou could timber harvest the trees. 

If a seller collects installments instead, he or she has the ability to defer taxes on capital gains and collect interest income on the balance owed to him or her.Additionally, complimenting strategies could be explored such as tax-gain harvesting if the seller is in a position to do so.

In addition to the headache of fallen dates, in order to properly protect the dates they need to be bagged for a few months a year, and harvested.....the bags look odd, the maintenance and harvesting takes time that needs to be coordinated in between guest stays, and there's not much money in it.....so we simply cut the bunches so they do not re-grow to remove that part of complexity from the landscaping.

Buy a timber tract with your Roth  use it for fun on the weekends let that timber grow and harvest it in 50 years.. you still own the land and you can replant and give to your kids or grandkids.. diversify. 

Thanks Miguel G. and great to see many of you at the MAREI meeting last night - we were able to provide 11,250 meals for Harvesters from all the donations, raffle tickets and not so silent auction.

Astute investors in farm properties will prosper.Recognize differences in harvesting cycles, the growing seasons, and carrying costs between planting and harvesting.  

Got an apartment in Madison and later bought a house in Harvest.

Some selling the latest sales gadget, wanna-be investors, or just plain scam artist, all who harvest our numbers from the MLS and lists companies. 

This is not speculation.I have done the research, I have harvested the data.I have analysed the data.