@Rich Solano Need to lock those up at deeper discounts shoot for 30% minimum remember market values are still inflated in many cases, if you only buy with a 10% discount and we get a strong market correction you'll be in a tough spot.

I'm a medical worker myself, so I think the resources and connections I have in that field would help.

There are so many short term places today that competition is tough, so adding something no other property has, being creative in design, something like that to stand out, people want a unique stay, and with a fixer-upper, you can do whatever you want!

so much private land has been logged and replanted since then.. in those days we would buy a 40 lets say for 150k  take 200k of timber off of it then sell the land on contract for same price then hypothicate the note to pull out more cash rinse repeat.. we also would use our logging roads and staging areas stratigically so when we left the roads were in the right place to do a 4 way lot split and the landings/stagging areas became the building pads.. in the NW permits for logging are not tough.. in those days it was over the counter and there was nothing you needed to do with regard to excavation.. however if I just bought the land and wanted to put in roads and pads then I would have had to get a grading permit and all the survey and engineering that went with it.. its was really something how we did that.. and I miss it to this day.. the other item that made it so profitable was Japan was paying premium for Export quality doug fir logs.. you could get double or more for export logs.

It's tough to get to that scale without having a massive driver of income or value add.

I am a little leery as all of my workers are here, but will play it by ear when I get more serious.Best of luck!

Everyone from tech workers to high school students.

Not trying to discourage you but it's tough.

Tough for buy in, but nice for out value.

So, Houston is tough.