My professional background is data science / analytics, which means analyzing cash flows will probably come more naturally than building relationships, which apparently, is how one finds deals worth making.Are there meetups in these areas I should attend (digitally at first, presumably)? 

Today’s buyers want spaces that flow naturally and maintain functionality.

@Akshay Bhaskaran, off market deals, by nature are not marketed, so as others noted you have to work to find them.  

Most real estate agents actually do not have the need to go into an office to close transactions and meet clients at either a natural location or at the properties they are showing or listing. 

#10)  The birds provide a free, natural alarm clock!

Somehow I think it's better to hold onto my own money and keep that dry powder on the sidelines waiting to get into the game if there are some emergency expenditures (haha, very likely with the kinds of deals I'm thinking about in class C neighborhoods).

Naturally, they are your competition and the daily rates need to be taken into account.

I'm just not seeing any strategy that can offset to any significant degree, the depreciating nature of either asset.  

The seller seeing the interest in their land, naturally did not want to budge on the price.

It has solar power, a compost toilet, and other things of that nature to be self-sustaining.