Should I play harder and get into land development?  

Then you hire a coach to accelerate your learning and take you to the next level.Using a sports analogy, it would be foolish to hire a basketball coach if your intent is to play pickup games every Saturday for fun.

As a senior baseball player looking to eventually play pro ball after this spring semester, I acquired a serious interest in doing real estate as another source of income.

Sometimes the best investment is found in a 'transitioning' market that is just outside the 'great' market and is in play to be the next great one. 

Not sure if the upstairs tenant (heavyset person with a dog) plays a role.Seeking suggestions.

Oregon saw it that way as well.. many folks got cease and desist using guru on line training techniques this just formalizes the activity and levels the playing field and gives both buyers and sellers a mechanism to get out of deals and or have a regulator step in..

My nephew when to Cornell and played football. 

Is this a cash-flow play or an apprecation play?

Allow things to play out, unless the buyer closes sooner.

A and B neighborhoods typically don’t produce much cash flow and are more of an appreciation play—something the city has been seeing quite a bit of over the past decade.