Urban sprawl has also destroyed most natural habitat in Socal and pushed agricultural land into the desert where cultivation is massively wasteful in resources You can trust my experience, they will make everything in their power to make your life miserable if you try to entitle undelevelopped land in the mountains.

If you don't have private money relationships cultivated yet, hard money is a good way to open up opportunities for you to close quickly on the purchase.

It is important to cultivate relationships with them.

Email lists of buyers in your market isn't a buyer's list, you need to form real relationships with buyers and cultivate those relationships.

If you do go the route of the lender you are better off using small local banks as the ability to cultivate a strong relationship with them is far easier than using a massive commercial bank.

One idea I had was to go to SD-IRA investor meetups and cultivate them myself.

Private Lenders are not found on Craig’s list, or in Facebook groups, rather they are relationships that are cultivated by the Borrower and the Borrower controls the flow of the conversation and the paperwork.  

This will help cultivate a family-friendly atmosphere, attracting stable tenants.Conclusion:Investing in an apartment complex located in a solid C area requires careful consideration and proactive measures.

My assumptions going in are that the land would need to have some set of desirable cultivation traits (soil quality and access to water for example) and potentially meet local zoning requirements for agriculture.

They'd be thrilled with 12% IRR, or even less.So it's important to cultivate investors outside of places like this as well.But remember, raising capital is just one piece of the puzzle.