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Thats a different perspective.. the guru's cannot be national gurus and be at the street level  too many students in to many time zones.

What level of experience does an investor need in order to raise $250k or $1M?

Discuss capital gains rates at various income levels with your CPA - their obligation may be lower than you think.

A degree might give you a higher level of confidence etc.. 

There are more factors than just the community (#beds, level of theming, location to the amenities, style of home (single family, townhome, condo) and others) But I would strongly advise to stay within some of the same communities you mentioned like Storey Lake, Windsor Hills, Championsgate and a few others if cash flow is your goal.

Here are just a few commentsA syndication with 5 levels of membership is a pretty complicated beast.  

Existing-home sales, for example, hit their lowest level in nearly 30 years in 2024, with just 4.06 million transactions.

we do the same thing Jay but we look at this as return on entitlement spend and return on land purchase. we separate the two measurements. for return on entitlement spend its the total value of the land gain proven through either an appraisal pre and post entitlement from an institutional level appraiser by Berkadia or sale price divided by all of the soft costs needed to get the site to the finish line. we look for sites that are at least a 5x and typically focus more on single parcel sites that aren't assemblages and do it by going vertical not horizontal. as many have said there is much more risk in this strategy that you are doing that led to a lot of bankruptcies. also focusing on the luxury in my opinion isn't a scalable strategy. 

Because those simply demand a significant level of labor inputs that makes it very hard to effect the efficiency model we invented.