Good luck in your exploits.

It means your lean, mean, mobile and can get maximum ROI by finding small niches that the big guys are just too big or busy to exploit.

Do you have any strengths that might worth exploiting in the investing space?

I guess in the end it's a personal choice based on your beliefs.I wouldn't want to be involved in projects like that knowing the living conditions.If a quality project was built then that would be different but not slum lording and taking advantage of common people and exploiting them.What you would need to look at is the CYCLE of the boom for jobs and what the picture looks like when the project is complete.Development of large projects can take up to 3 to 10 years to complete and get fully operational from the initial phase of research and development and site selection.Development can have a large risk as by the time the units hit the market other developers could be in the game as well.Then you can have with a market shift going from under saturation to over saturation of product.Then the expected returns you were planning to get could be diminished.Also in the first phase of the project market demands could change changing how you build out the units and increase build out costs and time lines.Yes developers can make big money but they can also lose huge money and I have seen it happen.You have to be very careful with projects like this.

Some brokers exploit 1031 buyers by getting them in contract (even on bad deals) and then dragging their feet until past the 45 day line and you're stuck with 3 (some instances more) nominations to close on.

You then rehab the property to its highest and best use and finance out of it, exploiting the equity created. 

Real estate sales operates on an antiquated model that can be quite exploitative to new agents.

@Shawn Kane probably the strongest argument against illegal immigrants is because they get exploited by things such as paying higher rents and under market salaries.

I hope within next couple of weeks she should be evicted, provided she doesn't come up another idea to exploit the law and buy more time.

Hands are full all the time.So I would just be very careful getting into a field you admittedly know little about… that in no way is to say “don’t do it”… it’s more about being at risk of being exploited.