Can’t on financial assets unless you loss harvest.11.  

And even then, harvesting equity (refi / pulling out cash) here and there to pay for add'l properties. 

A really successful investor friend of mine once told me "be like a farmer plant seeds, water and nuture it,  and the harvest will come" I wish you all the success in your real estate endeavors :)

Our issue is finding someone to come in and harvest the wood. 

it is just unfathomable as to the steps one has to take to get a commercial harvest permit in CA.. this is why all the big timber companies left and sold out.

If your company offers a Roth 401k (most seem to now) that is a great way to get Roth assets if you are single and earn over $118k or married and over $186k.The flexibility in accessing tax loss harvesting strategies to offset real estate liquidations later on is huge too.

This is a great read and one we will harvest information from to jump start our REI journey.If anyone is in the Southern California area and would like to connect, please shoot me a message.

From there I have the goal of purchasing 2 additional 50+ acres and harvesting the timber; by the end of the year.

Additionally, stock market loses during the Great Recession are just paper losses unless you sold in the downturn, which a long term passive investor would not do (aside from tax-loss harvesting).If you want to compare apples to apples, how about comparing your business partner to the 10-year returns of "UPRO," a 4x leveraged S&P 500 ETF, which is up 1517% since 2008 (not including dividends) and is a totally passive investment.To be clear, I'm not trying to argue that stocks are better than real estate investing.

Werehouser   and Harvard and Hancock finance a bunch of it for the bigger operators.but I am talking about private holdings in the 500 to 2000 acre range.. strategically planted and harvested then replanted these are just like any other farm enough to live on that revenue alone.. unlike farming though.. you don't have to work the land.. you can pre commercial thin you can do a Little fertilizing but not necessary.. when you log you just hire a contract logger... some of the bigger mills will manage the sites if they get the wood.. but you don't get top dollar like if you hire your own loggers ..