Purchase price: $300,000 Cash invested: $60,000 My first mixed-use purchase, this was an off-market deal with a contractor I encountered as part of my property management work. 4 apartments and a commercial unit near the interstate on a main thoroughfare.

We have the opportunity to purchase land with a major interstate road frontage.

Private, interst-free loan How did you add value to the deal?

I suspect that these listings help with the mortgages of the primary residences.BTW, every single one of these Airbnbs have been really fabulous experiences, much nicer than the nearby hotels would have been.I stayed at one of these on a cross country drive once near the major interstate.

(think: a semi-industrial area right next to an interstate or 4 lane highway, unattractive urban sprawl, high crime, some of the worst school districts in the city, etc.) ....This is a pretty profound shift in a very short period of time!

East Gaston County is close to CLT/airport/interstate/soon-to-be light rail/river/lakes. 

It's about 2 miles to the interstate, an hour from Chattanooga and an hour from ATL. 

I am investing interstate because of my budget.

Once educated enough did you go into drive up storage units small ones that you see off the interstate or did you go into bigger units 80×80?

My friend has been systematically buying up inexpensive homes, with cash, within a mile of Interstate 40, which runs right through Amarillo.