In 10 years, when you have a nice portfolio of homes and they're cash flowing nice chunks of money, you'll appreciate the amount of time, energy and effort you put into your business and will get to enjoy the fruits of your labor.When I first went to the cpa I've been using for the last 5 or 6 years and explained what I was doing, he said, he's heard it before.

Fruit-cake maybe, wack-job sure, but the psyco is a smart psyco. 

I have sellers of a t6-8 zoned property that would take 1 million right now I'm sure in Wynwood Norte. we can go 12 stories through max incentives and put 60 dwelling units on it. we entitle the land it becomes worth 3 million, then you have construction numbers, sale prices, etc. miami is crazy. the best way to make money from a professional in this industry for 13 years who lives in miami and looks at deals in columbus and miami is development and getting involved in early development opportunities of raw land in urban settings where there is very little risk and pushing high density.

2 years ago I purchased an acre of land in Arizona with a friend. Their father agreed to pay cash for it and my friend and I are now paying him back over the course of 6 years. All 3 of our names are currently on the ...

So, I think it definately takes more savvy these days, but there is still low hanging fruit in the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida everywhere I look. 

In my area, East Texas, there are miles and miles of vacant raw land.

I have 10 acres of raw land that I purchased to put a house on that already has a well, power and septic available. 

I saw the following post locally in NE Georgia, where 1/2 raw lots go from 15 to 50k.

I remember as a youngster having to stain and poly raw cabinets and never seemed like the time and effort it took was worth it, but I guess I learned work ethic and value.

When it was purchased in 1995, it was raw land.