As an investment property owner, this means less maintenance and fewer unexpected expenses from storm related damage, often resulting in more affordable insurance premiums, less wear & tear on mechanical equipment, roofing materials or exterior surfaces.

If you're not already, I'd do some old-fashioned in-person networking. 

Establish piece rate pricing based on quantity, square footage, surface area, or linear footage and apply that to prospective projects.

It’s easy to feel discouraged when the rewards aren’t immediate, but growth is happening beneath the surface.

There are a bunch of good choices IMHO.We don't have leather but all our surfaces are super durable because they are higher end sofas and chairs.The 3 main couches are a pair of Basset and a La-Z-Boy.

Actually here in Texas we can separate the surface rights from the minerals. 

Then what I would likely do is use self leveling concrete to make the surface level and flat.

Like someone else said, your RE licensure exam is going to touch on creative financing in a very surface level way, if at all.

It's failed in grand fashion every time, for good reasons but hey feel free. 

They can get away with it is because property prices have been going up in a much less crazy fashion than in the US or Canada and other parts of the world and they're much lower mainly because of the supply - demand equation, which actually is the silver lining.