I still enjoy the being a landlord but now I have discovered the easiest way to be a landlord.

Scouring Zillow, Realtor, MLS, etc. is not a practice that will scale quickly, but it is most definitely the easiest (and also most competitive) if one or two deals a year is what anybody is going for. 

It's actually quite common to begin the subd process prior to taking title.No, you wouldn't be able to compete the entire process and if you never exercised the option you will have gifted a lot of the entitlement process to the owner.I personally was able to begin the annexation process during the due diligence period on a deal and actually did a double close the day after the city approved it.

Hi @Aubrey Kincaid, this time of year you can’t beat a thoughtful gift with a letter stating your intentions (hand-delivered if relevant, mailed if not).  

Building or rehabbing out of state is difficult...period, and it's the easiest way to take a loss.

Finding a fixing a mistake is not the easiest.

In previous years, the Thanksgiving holiday also represented a bonanza for eateries and gift shops inside airport terminals, as well as car rentals, rideshare and taxi services.

Come April, that same industry employed 728,000 people dropping 60% month-to-month.(4)The following month you saw a positive 13.8% month-to-month gain in employment, or 866,600 now employed Hospitality & Leisure employees. (4)But, despite these signs of a comeback we will finish 2020 with a higher than healthy unemployment rate, and a partially opened and struggling service industry.Predictions on when we will back to normal hinge on the vaccine availability and how quickly people get vaccinated.Final ThoughtsAfter reviewing this information it’s easy to see how much the Hospitality & Leisure industry needs help, and supporting them through gift cards or donations will help prop them up until we can officially re-open everything.Speculations on how long until full recovery are modest for Texas — two to three quarters — while the rest of the U.S. could be seeing at least three years of down economic times. (2)ReferencesDallas Fed; “Your Texas Economy” — https://www.dallasfed.org/-/media/Documents/research/econdata/texaseconomy.pdfMark Sprague, State Director of Information Capital presentation — available on requestPWC & ULI: “Emerging Trends in Real Estate” — https://ulidigitalmarketing.blob.core.windows.net/emergingtrendspdfs/ET2020FallMeeting.pdfDallas Fed: Leisure & Hospitality — https://www.dallasfed.org/research/econdata/ausleiha.aspxDallas Fed: Texas Employment — https://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.tx.htmElise Gould: Quote — https://www.fastcompany.com/90549147/forget-u-or-v-or-w-we-may-be-headed-toward-a-k-shaped-recovery

Selling would likely be the easiest but growing your net worth and accumulating wealth takes time and discipline otherwise everyone would be millionaires.

Not the gifting of the bottle - but the fact that people are making a big deal of it.