Over the long haul, you will be much more wealthy with this road, then paying cash as you go.

Also, keep in mind I am a buy and hold investor, so there is no quick flip and he would be in it for the long haul (10 years)!

I am planning for the long haul, I am focus on buy and hold rental units in the south central Pennsylvania but is open minded to expand my horizon.

@Dan Baker I like your point on going one step further and calling the county office to find out where they think it's heading because I'm in it for the long-haul.

Tough to get rich that way, but I'm in it for the long haul

I know we have been toying with the idea. 

I've been I've been toying with the idea of purchasing a few acres of land in the Pacific Northwest and building a several small cabins to rent out as airbnb's.

As I said I've done both inland and central/coastal, and have made money both ways but have made more over the long haul coastal ... of course, I always made sure I could comfortably afford whatever I bought, so don't try to do coastal with an inland budget :) It would require a lot of thought and long conversation to drill down to those details, but in my mind those are the major high level factors.

Regarding our investment, obviously we'd be holding these units for the long haul, and our goal would be to upgrade them one or two at a time to bring them up to market standard so we can demand market rent.

These were toys that were very important to us, bit we realized that our financial could be greatly improved by separating needs and wants.