There are many more and many more personal goals such as getting married and starting a family, adopting my first GSP dog, traveling to Wyoming and Montana and spending more time in nature, just to share a few.

Brook and all the miles of nature trails on Shades Creek walking trails .  

If you want to be taken seriously I'd start saving for your first investment opportunity, maybe pick up OT or a second job to show you have skin in the game.

Naturally your property must sell before you can take title to the new one, but nothing prevents you from getting it under contract and make the process as smooth as possible.  

I don’t mind having skin in the game either, but I know using private money is key to scaling one day and would like to get some experience with it now, even if it doesn’t fund a majority of the deal. 

Obviously it's good from a nature preservation point of view but it's a very different from an investment point of view. 

I’m conservative by nature, and would never be comfortable overlooking this restriction.  

Prices a few years ago were based on expectations of (in addition to interest rates staying low): - Then current operating cost assumptions (like insurance cost expectations being flat)- A seeming disregard for record levels of new inventory / supply hitting the market- Extremely high inbound migration expectations which are likely to not be met, due to both natural disasters and the boomerang effect when people from California or the Northeast move to the American South and hate every minute of the humidity, the large and relentless swarm of insects, and the occasional hurricane. 

But given that it expressly includes a specific performance provision I would not be ignoring it… and neither would a judge or mediator.Real estate is unique by nature.

It's probably unlikely anything too bad would happen excluding natural catastrophes but why take the risk if the profit potential isn't there?