Nurture those seeds/relationships until they can bare fruit.

Start with buyers as it's low hanging fruit and your age/inexperience will be a deterrent for sellers at 1st.

This is a pivot for us in the past we have put debt on the dirt to juice the returns.. however with this project I wanted the dirt paid for just in case sales slow a little and we have to hold some of dirt.

This doesn’t seem like a wise battle to me honestly Juice not worth the squeeze on that one. 

I am going build resources in case this recession hits so I may be able to buy some properties with great discounts, but as opportunities become available along the way I will pluck them like fruit from the tree.

Otherwise people would get a 2nd job just to juice up their income for 2 months while buying a house, quit as soon as it closes, and (presumably) immediately go into default.

Large MF is great when you are using OPM and your making your money on a promote, juicing your returns.

Foreclosure auctions tend to be fruitful for experienced investors. 

They have to juice returns some way and makeup returns for the volume low rents and intensive type tenants.  

But now its the other way around, my W2/income is much much lower... my other businesses aren't as fruitful as they were due to things beyond my control.