I have considered doing either the duplex route, the fixer upper route, or maybe a mixture.

@Kevin IsaacsThe main thing with Phoenix multifamily properties with a high mixture of studios and 1/1's is that you're typically going to have higher turnover than a similar apartment complex with with 2/1's.Think about it... how long before someone's life scenario could change and they need more space?

Furthermore, grain prices have been drive up by high demand for corn due to the ethanol craze.

And THIS place has the Owens Corning basement system in place!

I think the flippers can protect themselves.And, unlike selling cars, real estate carries social responsibilities, mostly not understood as investors/operators begin their education with gurus instead of learning about real estate, just my opinion, they have no idea how real estate relates to a community, economics, health and welfare or why restrictions are in place.What you are hearing in my posts is not distain for investors but frustrations of pointing people in a direction to learn and getting folks who think that if they succeeded in selling corn, they can do real estate.

Usually the more doors per apartment building and/or the more money you put down, the more cash flow per door.You could also look into buying businesses (owning them, not running them), good old fashioned stock market investing (not retirement accounts, im talking brokerage accounts so you can actually use the moeny before retirement age) , cryptocurrency investing, or a mixture of all of them. 

That is not a colorful mixture I'd have predicted would look so good.

A majority of states finance state and local government through some mixture of sales taxes, property taxes and income taxes.

Cornelis has been there, but I am not sure I have met Sherman.

Around the Great Depression, when the land was worn out from reparative corn and cotton farming it was prime time to scoop up large tracts of land from people that were land rich, cash poor.I think these laws in SC goes back to the CCC days as during these same times companies like West Virginia Pulp and Paper (Westvaco), Weyerhaeuser and others came buying up worn out and abandoned farm land planting trees and did not want to be locked out of their timber land investment.