My job is to submit bid and negotiate only.  

You can't genuinely expect other cities to not try to create the infrastructure, job desirability, living conditions to impede such progress.

Your question is a very common question, and I can appreciate your concern here.

I make about 70k a year from my salaried job and my friend makes double that.

Another common practice for nationally sparse datasets such as tax data is aggregation.

GC's are all very well prepared in contracts now post covid, so there will be job stops when there isn't $ to cover those job cost runs. 

I am currently 21 years old and was recently hired with my dream job in Sarasota County (I saw that Sarasota wasn’t an option so I picked the closest.)

Hello all -I have been thinking of getting into realestate investment for a while with a goal of generating income stream (today my only income Is through my job - I make decently as a senior exec). 

This is not as passive as other investing but it will help launch your portfolio so that you can continue to invest without needing to work additional jobs.

If you are new to the business the most common issue is you're either locking up deals too high or you aren't finding attractive deals.