You can start soundtrack of Pink Floyd's 'Money' song.This program was started around the Inland Empire area, Riverside/San Bernardino counties.

I wanted to go with something fairly neutral to appeal to the majority of buyers, and not paint a wall an overly dramatic color (blue,green,yellow,pink).

I am entertaining the opportunity to invest with a company called Harvest Returns. 

The goal is always to re-harvest all of our initial capital back out of the deal so we can continue to build the portfolio.

Given the current market we're not even close to tapping out the equity in the home property we want to borrow against - if we sold it tomorrow we'd walk away with at lease 150k.Unfortunately we've run into a bit of a brick wall with the bank we approached, Wells-Fargo, who hold the pink slip on the house we were going to borrow against.

After that another job relocation and then I harvested equity from live-in flip because there was tons in that house and sold it and used that as seed money to pick up 5 multi family properties in a lower cost of living location where I felt I could get more bang for my buck.....

Attend events, meet people, harvest your own leads.

Would the 30 acres be appropriate for harvesting timber?

If you have capital losses from the sale of other investments, you can use them to offset capital gains, reducing your overall tax liability.Tax-Loss Harvesting: Strategically selling investments that are at a loss to offset gains.

Everything else is just cosmetic preference, and short of having shag carpeting in the bathroom with a pink bathtub, there's not much cosmetic upgrading that is going to have the impact that the major bones of the house will.