I have considered trying find deals and bring them to current investors to learn but not sure on how the Self-Storage Funds do Lead-Gen.. any thoughts or insight you can share with a fellow CPA would be much appreciated.

With these, campers would be expected to bring their own composting/camp toilets and basically pack out what they pack in similar to dispersed National Park camping. 

U can explore but if you actually want to do a project like this you will need to bring in someone who is experienced and bankable.

But I have done this...I called my electric company who sent me a form to complete on what I was requesting and paid $300 for their engineering team to come out and develop a plan for bringing in the wire, dig estimates, etc.

I think the truth that your post brings is in the level of sophistication and market insights of the investors and investment sponsors that are prevalent on these forums, the amount of money we are talking about, and the general idea that real estate, even when directly owned, is passive in nature.

Does this middle man make a percentage or profit by bringing us to the developers, if we sign through them, with one of ‘their’ developers?

For instance my 90 lot subdivision at one point I had 90 legal descriptions and parcels on one master deed.. as I sold them off we just deeded them out separately.. its super common especially in older platted cities were lots might have been small like 25 X 100 and someone bought 3 of them and then built one home on all three.. some places they force merge them others you can go back and recreate the Old lots of record.. there is millions upon millions made by those that know how to find shadow plats and bring to life underlying parcels.

A 3 bedroom house with two roommates would bring in around $1,400/month, and a home in the high $200k's with 3-5% down would have a mortgage pmt around $2k/month.

Don't be fooled by seeing new developments in a city, instead look into what the development brings to the city.

Quote from @Evan Polaski: @Brian Burke, you bring up a good point, but also, unfortunately, this is all grey area.