For a while I looked into medium size deals like 30-50 units in class B neighborhoods, but ultimately could not negotiate a deal to the point where it would have made financial sense.

Ultimately, it depends on how quickly you want to act and your comfort with leverage.

I think it really depends when and how you get ultra wealthy and ultimately you have to love what you do. 

Many who want to scale  fail to take this into consideration,  take on too many projects at once, have no capital to advance the construction and ultimately get stuck in mud unable to advance any of their projects.

Our ultimate goal is to get into real estate development along with buying rental properties.

Land is very tough to estimate value do to it's valie is based on what you can do with it and how much demand there is for what ever is ultimately done with it. 

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Ultimately, good to hear from both sides (pros and cons)  It's not the right one for me and my goals-- but if it helps you get to the next stage, it might be the right one for you.

We ultimately went with a private lender because it was easier.

this was the only refund by RADD mentioned in the 66 Google reviews/responses on their Google listing, and it was in response to an investor who had filed an SEC complaint, so everyone who has invested with them and has been denied a redemption, please file SEC complaint, but still more likely that a chronically depressed Lemming will survive the annual ocean crossing than you will see a dime of your investment anytime soon.