@Brandon ElliottIt does not make sense to get 12% and pay 10% as you will lose money after taxes….To answer the question about private lending - most do it because they are tired landlords and not necessarily due to funds they have but wanting to be more passiveI would want $250k as many of the lower dollar loans are very risky

(https://ibuyer.com/blog/can-you-sell-a-house-for-one-dollar/... 

To give a couple examples: a $200k house in the Midwest annual premium may be $1,200 a year and that same size house in the west might cost only a couple hundred dollars.

Multiple, billion dollar companies are investing investing heavy in our area, such as Intel, Google, and Amazon.

Driving for dollars.

I'm in the Tampa area and you can get top dollar for units needing to be renovated. 

Reason to rent is to have to a loan payed off and a few hundred dollars each month cash flow after all expenses.

Hi Dave, thanks for your response, I have heard of deal machine as well, especially when driving for dollars.

This means that these purchases are negative thousands of dollars per month.  

The answer is no, unless you have billions of dollars to your name and it doesn't necessarily has much to do with how nice these beaches are.