Downtown was and remains today walkable, safe, and vastly underrated, but I’d be cautious and ensure due diligence in areas around the peripheral.

Share your vision with local experts and go to meetups. 

Obviously, the developer has the vision for the land, owns the land initially.

It will run 15-20% and they may not share your same vision.

@Nathan Killebrew I’ll go with something I heard this past week from David Bach,“If you don’t know where you are going, you may not like where you end up”It symbolizes that you have to have a clear vision for where you want to end up.

Instead, we are fragmented into various sub-cultures, which reinforce the shared vision of the group through selective information processing.The question for investors is not how or why we got to where we are; the challenge is to secure our own personal and financial futures, and those of the people we care about (hopefully a wider circle than immediate family and friends).

We own and live in a duplex in Lewisburg, PA (our dream town) and have a vision of owning many properties here in this area.

Seeking out Facebook groups is always a smart play.There is also Task-Rabbit you could use for furniture guys and setup, and once you poach someone trustworthy, maybe outlay the entire project for them and paint the result-oriented vision.

Vision boards that have your goals on them can help you achieve your goals and keep them where you can see them everyday.Planning is very critical to help you achieve something.  

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