I wasn’t making much off mine when I first started 9 years ago but kept planting trees and enjoying all the mailbox $ now as market rent goes way up while my mortgages are fixed and seem really low now compared to rent.

You avoid 8-12 months of pain having to deal with builder delays, ground breaking due to winter/hard ground, costs of materials or shortage of inventories, etc.If that’s not your cup of tea you still have Charlotte, Duram and Fayetteville all offer some great sale prices on SFR's and 2-4 units for STR/LTR.Owning a home is a plus to get started if there is equity to use and you want to stay cash fluid just pull out some cash through a refinance or Heloc to cover the DP on the new REI.

People love trees, ponds and boulders.

While they started cutting down trees yesterday, they said the actual construction won't start until at least early summer. 

There would be more impact of AI into commercial building as it worthed the dollar value.One thing that I always cross in my mind right, lets say I see a Milk tea store in front me.

It does seem that other investors are excited about it.https://markets.financialcontent.com/crain.businessinsurance...It is not my cup of tea so this is something I wouldn't consider.

I'd recommend reading David Greene's article: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/core-four-real-estate-tea... 

I’ve thought about BRRRR it’s not my cup of tea.

I ended up doing Joshua tree like everyone else in California haha  

If you plan to invest out of state for you first deal it will also be essential to build your core 4: https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/core-four-real-estate-tea...Happy to connect if you have more questions!