I wish there were a hundred of these on the market.

My point is, you are on the right track with your thinking, so now to the "HOW" to actually get in, if like me, you don't have an in or connection.First step is likely to get licensed, if you aren't already there are some other ways to get in the door and be helpful but licensed means they can pay you cuts of the deal and its less upfront cost and risk to them in helping you out.  

Sounds beneficial but for $5K, I want to hear a person's actual experience. 

He is actually bragging about this.Such a generous guy.

During inspections bring a few GCs to give you actual line by line item bids.

Look at their marketing strategy.

You’d be shocked by how little actual screening many PMC’s do!

This is far from the market I practice in but it would seem building and sitting on a few of these for 5-10 years could be quite a nice bump.I like the option to buy a 20plex, clear $10k/month and replace income.

And if the 25% tariff hits canadian lumber, then everything is going to shut down.I'd like to know when this country is going to actually do something to help new construction.

I would recommend trying all of it out of you are new and then zeroing in on 3-4 that you really like and start to get good at in your market.