Katrina caused massive infrastructure damage that prevented people returning to there homes for months (not days or weeks, but months).  

There are 10 massive construction sites for incoming tech companies on my 7-minute drive to work.

CA back in the late 70s and 80s ( when there was zero competition..now a days though its massively competitive..

I found biggerpocket on a free ebook on amazon kindle and love everything about it, been listening to 1-2 podcast a day and just doing massive research on everything there is about real estate investment.

If you sell all and realize massive gains in the same calendar year, you will limit your options to re-deploy that capital.  

However, if I own the adjacent lot I now can fence in some vacant land and create a massive yard.

It's near Rickenbacker air force, and has some major companies in the region with massive plants; Coke, Schottenstein's, a few others I'm forgetting. 

BP is a great tool for networking online...may not help as much with investors in your area, but it's a massive network.

The goal is to create massive value in those early years, after that, you are pretty much subject to the market rent growth of say 3%.  

It's a massive difference between spring/summer.