Anchor the container down so kids don't play with it.

You can get more granular, down to the city or zip code level on Hometown Locator https://www.hometownlocator.com, which uses Census Bureau stats.Once you identify areas with strong growth within growing MSAs, look for anchors like government or big universities that are never going anywhere and are immune to fluctuations in the economy.You should also look for the strongest school districts.  

In other words, does the strategy anchored in conventional tactics, conventional transactions that line up with acceptable practices and legal requirements?  

One would need allot of details about what exists in order to think of what would be a good fit for repurposing and then using that as an anchor for redesign and costing. 

Those people will move into your 1 bedroom and drop anchor long term.2 bedroom apartments have given me heartburn over the years.  

He wanted to do a flip which turned out to be a boat anchor around his neck.

Are you anchored by a 9-5 job?  

Once I got it here I found out that 1st, I had to have a state certified installer to set it up, gone is the days of doing it yourself.  2nd, even though the anchors in the concrete pads would line up with the new home,  I would have been forced to install new ones because of patented anchor system.

New places like 7 Seas Brewery are going to anchor that area.

They are anchoring at what you paid for the place 6 months ago.- A market correction could reduce the number of good comps and stop your strategy in your tracks.- Rising interest rates.- refi mortgage payment will be higher than original one.