David, regardless of your source of funds, you will never be seen as a "private lender" you're a broker and always will be, your source of funds is not a matter to classify a loan.

The S.O.T.A program works well, and is a good option to get a tough to rent vacancy filled if you invest in a low income area.The process of getting the deal done with them is pretty simple but pack your patience though if you get a bad case worker, you'll need it.

They could be good source for leads, they should be able to do the site work or refer to someone 'recommended' who can.For bare land- Your short 2month timeframe for permitting (city or county) and utilities is not going to be realistic or even close, most of the time.Your best bet is to find land that has a mobile (demo and scrap it) then replace.

this would never work for Abnb   Anytime I have booked an airbnb this has been an option on some of them

Check law to determine if you are allowed to discriminate by income source if you really only want Section 8 tenants.

This past winter i signed a tenant for three months with options to extend monthly until spring summer.

If you choose to proceed, I recommend verifying the source of the funds as it could be tied to a specific type of compensation.

Not before that long it could become more interesting for you than for us here.Now, for us building a portfolio of rentals (and btw also an option for Americans), we avoid this by not doing it as an individual but with a company (SL) and changing it to company tax (first two years 15% and after this 25%) and creatively deduct way more costs.It is true though that this is a good way if your strategy is to reinvest your money time by time building something bigger/passing it along to kids/relatives etc, because when you want to take money out of your company you would need to pay dividend tax or in the form as a salary.   

Plenty of free options out there to learn the business and get your feet wet and start taking action. 

But I see my options are 1.