How long (Months, year) does the training run and what is covered. 

I disagree--there are more tough times ahead, but as stated above there is light at the end of the tunnel and this time it's not a train. 

The hard and the fun part is training my team there in the proper processes from planting all the way through selling.  

According to Tom Cruz hereafter referred to as DB, I wasted 31 years of my life training to become an ortho surgeon but the DB doesn't understand some people enjoy their jobs and are passionate about helping other people. 

I've visited out there and thought it was a great little area (besides the train...) with a lot of potential.  

Plus, we can train him on the timber industry, the way we want him trained. 

The sales comparison approach is typically done for residential real estate and will be less appropriate and come in under value because there are no good comps, and even an appraisal using the income approach (unless the appraiser is trained to do more complex commercial appraisals) is probably not going to be the most accurate either because they typically use market cap rates and in this case you don’t have good comparable income properties to find the market cap for the analysis.  

It also has the benefit of being local which is great training wheels as you learn how to be a killer host.Now assuming that you mostly want a cool property to stay in sometimes near water and don't want to spend a ton of time managing I really like the outer banks in NC.

These are professionals with additional training and a stricter code of ethics.

The education and training they offer is tbd.