Which should be one-on-one.GROUP 1: Not tax strategies, but for some reason often promoted as suchOrganize your records.

The greatest piece of railroad land in the U.S. is for sale, you just have to ask.11.  

While both involve finding and properly securing a site and bringing it to full entitlement, the ground-up process includes the land piece but gets way more involved and complex to execute.The full "Monty" for ground-up development needs to include financial literacy, an explanation of metrics, and how they work.

Unfortunately the people who promote them do a great job of selling the dream of high returns for zero effort.

Often times when a builder/buyer moves too fast, or is too busy and overlooks a key piece of due diligence, the unethical ones will try the "scorched earth" method and blame everyone but themselves, even when they know it was their own mistake, and they'll see if they can scare you, the seller, the title company et al into paying damages/fixing their problem. 

I think one critical piece is being overlooked.  

I’m looking for some advice and guidance.I get-it how many want to promote "there" way of doing things, and often state it as "you should ___", because it's what they would do. 

Make those connections first.I know you want to take advantage of a great opportunity in your lending terms but that's only a piece of the pie when it comes to success in real estate.  

Cash flow is constantly promoted and pushed, and often, the personalities lack long-term experience, so they can't talk about the best reasons we should be investing.  

You also want to think–and this is perhaps the most important piece–how will this particular laundromat fit into your life?