I also don’t like renting really nicely rehabbed properties, most renters don’t take care of properties as well as we would hope.

@Dave FosterAre development rights “real property”?

Excited to join the BP community.About myself - I am a principal of a RE development company and co-founder of an proptech company. 

Given the location and how the town has been developing it seems like a good investment opportunity for rentals.

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You did mention that this was a nice rental.

Second, if you want a nice house in a nice part of town, you will have to pay for it, so will likely need to raise your purchase price.Third, if you want to go off-market, just know you are trading a lot of time for the possibility of maybe finding a deal.  

Buy nice or buy twice.

Do a nice job.

Red Rock Development spent $50 million building the 600,000sqft warehouse (that Amazon now occupies) without a tenant lined up based off the projected growth.