I hired a public adjuster and he took over everything (and explained WTF was going on in the simplest of terms so my brain could understand) and he got us 150% more than the original offer.  

Coming from a background in finance, I know that I will, one way or another, be able to find either a single partner, or group of investors who aren't afraid to pull the trigger, and who are interested in actually developing land, not destroying it, and creating beautiful properties to be sold along with beautiful margins.I'm also curious to know if any of you have tackled projects similar to this (I know I haven't given out the secret ingredient), just speaking of land acquisition / development / selling properties, repeat.Thoughts?

In it's simplest form, the cap rate is the return that an investor is willing to receive if they put no debt/loan on a deal.For example, a 6 cap would mean an investor is willing to buy that particular property for a 6% return.

Vern M....Sowing and Reaping is one of the simplest concept of life.  

The simplest is to find an investor who will put up the down money and be part of the deal.

One of the simplest answers is to put in an indexed ETF with low fees.

The key ingredient will be your property management company.

@Quinten Sepe  The key missing ingredient is time.

To me this is the simplest method.

The simplest might be to have the property owned by an LLC with a really clear and specific LLC agreement specifying all terms of any agreement for all involved.