If the area is not growing, then appreciation will be flat.

The goal is to continue growing the management business with our portfolio.

But e-commerce has been around for several decades now and continues to grow.”In the lengthy “Marco Santarelli” YouTube videos, he explains that small business lending through promissory notes generates higher returns for investors than treasury notes, hard money lending, and real estate trust deed notes ( Link, at 29:42).

Henry on the Teak wood and lumber aspect.. what is the growing cycle for the hardwoods to become merch ? 

Networking with other investors and learning from your early experiences will help you grow confidently.Good luck!

I would say go for it if that is what you expect to incur in the future or you are still growing.

I have amassed a decent network of vendors, so definitely looking at fixer uppers.Eventually, I hope to grow my portfolio to acquire commercial loans for multifamily deals, I haven't started purchasing investment properties, only have my private residence.

I would start with single family and small multifamily to get familiar with the real estate market and make sure this is something you're passionate to do for the next 20 years and then grow into bigger multifamily deals.I hope this helps.

@Ian FortneyWe checked out Jaco, and from what I have researched and learned was during COVID it was a strong growing  area, then everything came to halt and very little has restarted.  

I can only think that this grows as we move into the typical buy/sell season.I assume that your buyer funnel is full, and a lot of people have the want to buy with a constraint or two (rate mostly) of some sorts and you're working with them to execute their purchase at the right time while working around their constraint.