What Ryan said ,it’s also changing faster than the speed of light.eg Rural north and south around 10th was /is very impoverished but the City has bought at least a dozen properties along Rural primarily south of tenth Re promise zone ,so a lot of really good things happening around here.To make the numbers work now you kinda got to jump Rural where previously you would have to been very adventurous Hope this helps a little 

Some owners are good at schmoozing  and good will in a certain light to get things approved faster and others are not.There are liaison types who do cost money but can usually help speed things along.

If you stretch a year here and there I'm old enough to be his grandma and he's right about our generation not keeping up, the tech and the language around it are changing at light speed and we need to stay on top of it to be successful.

I’m running low on resources at the moment and need to find additional help to speed up the work.I prefer to be the GC myself as I’ve found I save a ton of $$$ that way.

The broker is telling you how awesome the deal is and you want to get one under your belt, so you convince yourself that the market will keep increasing in value at it's current speed. 

Does the association provide water, electricity, high speed internet, cable, etc?

The speed at which listing and closed prices are going up will only drive prices even higher.Terry

So if you are contacted by him again take of running full speed the other direction!!!  

I'm constantly listening to BP podcasts (even if its a 1.5x the speed while driving, cleaning, etc. so that I can listen to as much possible lol). 

Leverage is a shortcut to acquisition and speeds your wealthy accumulation.Third option is what I would do.