If you visit, you will see many commercial developments in the city and new single-family homes continuing to be built in the suburbs.

City officials plan to make the Queen Mary a centerpiece of their Olympic tourism strategy, alongside hosting five Olympic events.In addition to refurbishing the ship, Long Beach is developing its downtown and waterfront areas, including a new amphitheater and commercial spaces.

The original “cash is king” was a saying that was developed during the ultra high interest (mortgage rates hit 18%!)

Building small units in small unit count is some of the most expensive development.  2) the financing on an ADU is typically far worse than for initial investment property acquisition or is often not leveraged (HELOC, cash out refi, etc).

Plus the developer will take care of maintenance.

Most of us doing it a long time have developed systems so that we handle these things efficiently.  

For instance I was seeing insane growth and development in pasco county, wesley chapel areas outside of tampa, and actually had a hell of a time finding industrial space in Bradenton FL, so at least on the commercial side of things from my limited experience there didn't seem to be a down turn or softening, so its so interesting to here your take on your local market there as well.  

.: wholesaling is a dishonest business of people misleading sellers to believing they can buy their property, when they actually have no intent nor means to do so.Yes, and some developers use T1-11 and wallboard from China.

If the investor is paying cash then it could be more negotiable.If the investor is a developer this is probably all out the window. 

Storage units, industrial, raw land, development (a form of value add), zoning changes (a form of value add), office, hotel/motel, NNN, etc.