I agree with the comments above.Most important is a fully furnished, comfortable property with the basic amenities: coffee, teas, functional kitchen (all utensils, spices, cooking and baking, etc.)

Where single family rentals weren't exciting to me, building and developing land and redeveloping old spaces really intrigued me.

@Joshua Christensen Coincidentally I met the managing partner of Infinite Capital, Javier Pineyro last week for coffee.

If you are in the CLT area and are looking to connect with othr like-minded individuals, I would love to grab a coffee with you!

Weekly coffee held every friday from 7-8:30 at smokey row on cottage grove held by Darson Grantham  Monthly meeting second Tuesday of every month from 5-7 at Keg Stand (they did re brand & it is named differently now) but that is where it is held.

In my opinion, an in person meetup > an online connection.You may want to consider making a connection here and meeting up for coffee or attending a real estate networking event.Best of luck!

From there most of the time the personal connection is there and they have no problem sitting down for a coffee chat. 

Does anyone know, or have a good idea, about the difference in returns on entitling & developing the land for each scenario, with final objective to sell to a builder to build and sell the structures him/herself.  

I'd really vet the developer, their past projects, talk to prior partners (GP & LP) to see how prior development deals worked out and how the communication was, etc.

we need our own forum for this concept. I'd argue that there are very select zip codes where this strategy works. You need to find a zip code where land values are 10% of less of after built value. You have to find a ...