Land in Apex north and west is selling like hot cakes to International investors and national builders.

That is speculating and not investing.Numbers work going in and the rest is icing on the cake if it happens and if not you hit your goals anyway.It seems the primary reason you are buying is for a home for the family to live in so the investment portion seems like a much less important detail than the emotional component from what you have said so far.Maybe just view this property as a happy family home purchase and then if you like the area once you live there look around for properties where you buy just off of investment from the additional cash flow with the low mortgage payment.

Once you can do that, the rest is cake.

As for exam studying, RE trainers out of Anaheim has a 2-day exam crash course scheduled for the weekend of Oct 8-9 in Santa Clara.

A good sheet rock crew can save you weeks of time and complete your project much more efficiently.Tree Trimmer - Minor pruning is a piece of cake. 

You can still find deals but it's not a cake walk like it was from 2008 to 2014. 

There are tons of things going on in the background though and trust me anyone who has tried to sell restricted stock will tell you its no cake walk which is why people generally pay less for restricted shares than freely tradeable shares 

The icing on the cake is that a lot of vinyl floors are comprised of recycled materials and are completely recyclable themselves.

@Kiersten Vance  We are trying to be near our home and work so cities like Whittier, La Habra, La Mirada, Brea, Placentia, Anaheim and surrounding areas.

Surely, these are benefits you and other readers already know, and the icing on the cake, of course, is market appreciation.