Train with the one thing you have with you all the time FIRST and then go to external weapons if you like.I hear all the time from some 400 pound fat guy they have a gun and go to the range once a week but if they walk more than 20 feet they get out of breath.  

Howerver, I have resrvations about how this will impact the community's living standards as the development will immediately border some neighborhoods and could bring unwanted environmental impacts and noise. 

If you've got a fat stack of cash to work with, you can make all-cash offers on "as-is" properties with a fast closing, no contingencies, and get properties for 75% of market value that way.

Sounds enticing:  buy property after property for .35 on the dollar, quickly flip it to someone else for a fast, fat profit. 

Highs typically range from 87°F at the start of the month to 74°F by the end, with lows cooling between 65°F and 53°F.

Compare the budgets, where is the fat? 

Some land flippers will buy unwanted and neglected parcels of raw land for a bargain and then improve them by clearing the land or even leveling it before selling it on.Most land flippers are making money by actively seeking and marketing their land flip projects.

Like ODC that has a portion of their deals that never really returned anything and were sent letters saying they needed a capital call or were going to take a big fat hair cut.. then ODC decided in the best interest of the company and investors to bring in pref equity according to what has been posted thereby diluting the original investors..

I bought my stuff cheap for cash, most over a decade ago.We still find distressed properties and motivated sellers willing to get rid of unwanted properties cheap that we fix up and rent out.I also use cash from my self directed IRA to also buy properties for cheap.

Pigs get fat and happy, hogs get slaughtered.