There is also the lending field which is quite lucrative if your more into financecommercial real estate if some day you want to be doing bigger deals and making 6 figure commissions checks.. etc etc.to try to start your business as a flipper or wholesaler is tough and it has a 95% failure rate being that it appeals to the mass's of which many frankly don't have the skills to succeed or the financing behind them.OR converselyMake money at your chosen profession save and buy and hold.. buy the best you can hold for long term.. same with buying securities .

However, as I said an investor could strike an honest deal anticipating that the property will sell for more than the taxes owed and be willing to gamble on that.

Predicting appreciation seems like a big gamble to me.

Renting and eating the loss is a gamble on future rent increases, but the market and high costs might not make it worth the stress.

Doing Build-4-Rent without all this, is GAMBLING not investing.

Not sure if you have solidified/chosen a lender yet, but BP has a list of reccomended DSCR lenders that I think would be great for you to check out.

And I didn't even dive into the construction aspect and knowing what works and doesn't work for a chosen submarket. 

Meeting strangers at a vacant property is always a gamble also.  

The part about people not believing in you or thinking its a gamble definitely hits close to home for me..

Chosen toolsb.