Really captivating.

That's what 1031 was made for - to sell and take captive equity and redeploy into other assets offering better returns - And without paying taxes on the profits! 

After discussing with a recent grad that began investing in real estate, I was captivated.

Most of the REI meets are exactly that, sponsored to muster up a captive audience that the organizers can sell to. 

(Not the most captivating page-turner I assure you.

Properly purchased and managed, land-lease communities return double the profits one might expect from apartment buildings.For operators large enough, owning communities also offers access to prospective borrowers for a captive finance company that can, despite all the new regulations on lenders, add an even larger profit stream than the communities.Both offer interesting tax advantages as well.All of the above pre supposes that the operator knows what they are doing and is willing to work hard to make it happen.

all large firms have a contract to sign where they want you to be "captive" and do what they wantI like KW tho 

They can be an independent or a “captive” agent.

They have access to Title I and Title II and that is as deep as anyone will go when buying loans, other than the captive finance companies that generally will not finance homes sited outside manufactured housing land lease communities owned by a related company.

I don't know why this fascinates me so much (and I recently pitched a reality tv producer about it - with a charity bent to it) but the idea of turning a certain sum into a much larger sum in a time frame captivates me in an unhealthy way.