I got leads doing direct mail marketing in the beginning, and now my website is harvesting leads.heck 80% of the leads coming in are not suited for me.

An interesting point here is that Joe had never farmed before but it had always been a dream of his to do so.As each different crop became ready to be harvested Joe started to realize that there was more than he and his family could ever eat.

No disrespect to Mom, but Lodi is not the mecca of anything other than the grape harvest. 

My plan was to take the cap gain tax hit and move harvest the equity to more liquid equity investments such as diversified index and low fee market funds.One of the counterpoint to selling is rent in Sacramento can continue to go up while my mortgage is fixed.

Such as harvesting pine, leasing land for agricultural rights whether grain or cattle or simply leasing the property to hunters.

I’ve done several cash out refis after 3-5 years to harvest some of that equity to scale up and buy more properties with the cash.

Same thing if Mike were to own an orchard and sold trees that Mike maintained, harvested, sold the product, then distributed to the "buyer" - an investment contract.Also, PL is not "investing with you" (equity). 

You are gathering names for which you will plant seeds and harvest later.Since you probably don't know how to read files efficiently (yet), you need to become familiar with the terminology and understand the relationships between parties.

I'm sitting on my hands now waiting to harvest my work in the North Oak Park area.

So many times you are suggested 20 ways to build a buyer's list Which are going to give you the real buyers with the least effort With the market conditions in such shady conditions I would say go 80/20Do the highest value activities first but bust your a$$, and do the rest of the top 80%Plant your seeds everywhere....And a strong harvest is sure to follow.