There's also a new 1 billion dollar development called The Exchange that will be a mixed use luxury space similar to North Hills. 

Western states (anybody from California knows this really well) practice this a lot.Find a local attorney (not just any attorney but a real estate attorney) who has experience with this, probably back in your town where the home is located.I think taking up seller financing is a great move and there a billion ways to pull it off.

College is a multi-billion dollar a year BUSINESS.

I own a website design firm that also focuses on the Contracting industry, and have worked with clients ranging from multi-billion dollar tech companies to fashion labels and small construction firms. 

The Topic was buying abandoned Properties, and i swear i feel like i don't know any more of how to get started in this area than i did before the seminar started.Let alone, the host told a billion "stories" about some of the deals he did, which were mostly about the seller's situation, personality, etc.

Plenty of great things going on....like Oracle HDQ move to Houston, Tesla in Austin, Several Billion $ worth of chip plants around Sherman, basically new WF HDQ in Irving, Schwab HDQ in Southlake, State Farm and Liberty Mutual insurance in/around Richardson. 

Home to The Ohio State University with nearly 60,000 students, 5 fortune 500 companies, over +25% population change since 2000, 2016 smart city challenge award winner gaining 50 million dollars in funding from the government ( https://www.columbus.gov/smartcity/), Intel is spending 20 Billion dollars to build two semiconductor plants, and many many more great things presently and coming in the future.

It's unlikely schools like A&M, with their top flight engineering programs and billion $ endowments for research are likely to see much of a decline.  

There is an abundance of opportunity here for reasons such as Intel, Google, and Amazon investing billions of dollars into the market and plenty of other business moving here for the rising economy. 

Samsung's $17 billion semiconductor chip manufacturing plant currently under construction on the south side of Taylor is poised to upend the local economy, being by far the largest anchor employer in the region.