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Your realtor should be the backbone of your business and be able to help with sending you personalized deal flow, building the rest of your real estate team (PMs, GCs, lenders, etc), showing you the good/bad neighborhoods, developing scope of work and estimating renovations, and so much more!

We are cementing our growth strategy as a local and regional builder and looking to grow into subdivision development so we control more land but wanted to seek advice in the forums about this. 

I also have kicked off new businesses in Northwest Arkansas doing real estate development, new home and flip construction, as well as real estate investing. 

Columbus Ohio is one of the hottest markets in the US right now with some of the fastest population and job growth and companies moving and developing here.

Some areas worth looking into:Centrally located neighborhoods like Alhambra and parts of Maryvale still have affordable properties with strong rental demand.West Phoenix (Tolleson, Avondale, parts of Glendale) offers good price points with room for appreciation.South Phoenix is seeing a lot of development and has solid long-term potential.Mesa and pockets of the East Valley can work, especially if you find something that needs light rehab but has strong rental demand.It’s definitely tough to get both cash flow and appreciation in today’s market, but if you’re strategic with your buy, rehab, and financing, BRRRR is still doable in Phoenix.

@Von Wilson you could ask the developer next door to partner with you and have them build on your property.  

As the CFO of a developing firm, I’m loving the play-by-play—shows how patience and off-market grit still win in a slow market.You’re spot-on about transactions dragging—non-turnkey, overpriced stuff is just collecting dust right now.

I think you have many great opportunities in that part of NY but I would say develop some metrics and measure markets according to your metrics. 

I'd be looking to do an SPV and raise additional equity to capitalize the project and make it much larger if all 10 acres are buildable. you are going to have 400k in costs to do that kind of subdivision but you'll make way more we are looking to start doing the same strategy in Columbus Ohio now for large subdivision developments