Assuming that they aren't simply lucky in market timing, excessive in leverage, or excessively risky, why do you think that some companies and leaders ARE able to duplicate the ROI driving expertise and/or improve personal-business productivity in a way that allows scalability?

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But 1031ing your current land into better production land that you rent out can be a very stable platform.  

Know your product. 

Less oversupply with that product type and more renters that were renting the more expensive bigger cabins are choosing the lesser ones because they love the area but don't want to spend as much on rent.We've talked with several long time investors out there and there isn't a one that have held on to their cabins over time that aren't still adding more. 

For value add you need to buy deep, have reputable contractors, and understand different financing products + creative finance.  

You will owe monthly payments until you fix the property up, rent it out, and refinance to a more traditional 30 year fixed rate product. 

There are separate loan products for construction of an ADU (checkout Derek @ThatADUGuy on Instagram) to learn more.

There are thousands of lenders and tens of thousands of loan products.

+I've researched something called an FHA Construction loan in terms of financing this project, but it seems that most large banks don't offer that product.