That shows real estate can be possible for anyone; in my opinion, I know everyone has unique and challenging situations, but in principle, anyone who can follow some basic budget fundamentals can save up enough for a down payment.Grateful BiggerPockets continues to bring more people into the industry!

Our construction site will just have basic utilities turned on and no wifi.

Ask multiple people on and off BP (preferably people who are no biased). 

thats basic list one can add.Value add /  New construction / land entitlements/ Timber / Minerals/ Lendingetc etc.. far more ways to actually make money than just buy and wait for rental income to payoff debtl 

Go to meetings to network, meet people, find deals.

Just curious what people have ran across to build these days?

I’m eager to learn from people who have been through it already and are open to sharing their knowledge.

Given that we are on BP and so many people know Brandon, I am very surprised that not many people are invested in ODC.

It basically exempts the first $75k of value from the assessed value for the millage (among other things). 

Air Force basic training happens here, so every week there is a big batch of families coming to see their kids graduate.