Real estate is not a quick game, but planting a seed early on can be harvested in just a couple years, then you can really start to scale quickly.

It looks a typical Big Tech unicorn/commercial enterprise harvesting information from visitors that could be sold to parties interested in exploiting this entire situation.

But when you are getting a core asset, where there is little to no lift in the asset and you are simply buying to hold and harvest cashflow, a cap rate holds a lot of info.From an investor standpoint, the only reason I care about cap rates is to confirm a sponsor is not relying on cap rate compression to hit returns. 

Wouldn’t this process be like harvesting apples from a tree to place in the basket and instead of placing the bad apple (nonpaying tenant) in the bad apple basket (showing eviction on their report) we place it in the basket with the good apples and possibly have a fellow investor come pick the bad apple and be stuck with it?

I've heard of people buying land and letting the companies harvest some trees to fund the payoff for the property.

Hey Jaquetta,Most of the time our company is harvesting trees from land that we own, commercial lands and various public lands.

You need to learn how to harvest motivated sellers.

Seeds sown long ago are ready to harvest. 

If you want potatoes for dinner once would you rent out a garden plot, buy seeds, water your plants daily, and harvest in 4 months?

“Harvesting” capital gains means selling an investment that you know will have a long-term capital gain in years when you will not be taxed on that gain.