My thought is the possible rent value has no correlation with raw land value. 

How much do you know about raw land? 

Meaning, the lender will usually determine the average tax % for the area after improvements have been made and they'll use this amount to determine your debt ratio as opposed to the original/artificially low taxes that are assessed on the raw land.     

Despite offering almost every amenity for an ideal vacation, my efforts to increase bookings through more than ten non-exclusive agreements with local property managers and continuous outreach to travel agents have not been fruitful.

-I make myself and my wife a fruit and veggie smoothie every morning.

For an uneducated consumer or depending how strong their sales team is this is a very raw deal.

Hello! There is some land near where I live that came up for sale. I feel like I remember hearing one of the podcast or somewhere that the appraised value of timber on the land can be used as down payment for purchasi...

I do what I consider a very good job at peeling the curtain back and presenting the business to folks in it's most raw form.

I missed that market downturn because I was still very young and raw.

They would have to do really well for me to be interested in tossing a bunch of cash at glamping and then be staring down the barrel of raw land value in the end.Part of my mantra has always been don't expect appreciation to make up for a poor performing asset.