Your house is more akin to buying raw land with your profits coming from the sale.

Purchase price: $587,000 Cash invested: $587,000 Industrial raw land developed into 12-unit industrial park, some will be held and some will be sold

As you probably realize, there is a big difference between a lot ready to build on and a chunk of raw land.Getting raw land on some sort of owner-financed deal is not that hard.

And, deduct for areas that need to be cleared to be utilized.Just some of the considerations in raw land valuations.

I only use porcelain, but the big box stores run good sprecials on cheap ceramic, if it happens to be the look and durability you want.There's a local discount wood flloor place that sells prefinished hard wood flooring with good selection and good prices, but raw hardwoods, I go direct to the mill (which would only be for top of the line, to pay for all the finishing when pre-finished is so easy.)Some of these guys, I can call and order and I'll get just whay I want delevered.

Both matter, and you don't have to choose between one or the otherPercentage is a more valuable metric than raw volume, however because the average cost of living is (on scale) the same for everyone as you go towards larger volumes of money then the percentage seems less important.

started at 45, used self-directed ROTH-IRA to buy 5 turnkey properties (all cash) summer 2012was just about to start looking at buying another property with the rental proceeds at the end of 2015, when I heard about syndicationbought into an office park, then a multi-family, then a parcel of raw land in wine country, and recently a self-storage placeall with my rental proceeds and IRA contributionslooking at mobile home parks for my next investment, hopefully soonalohasteve

Do you have any advice on how to narrow the country down by using raw data such as Employment growth, population growth, big companies coming into cities providing economy growth, etc?

Many investors have found success with self-direction, and have invested in real estate assets ranging from commercial real estate, to residential real estate, and even raw and improved land.

The other thing is you have to pay attention to RAW LAND.