If someone lists their property for sale on the open market, then we pursue the property (Within reason) so that other people can’t block our assemblage.We are using different entities to hold  title to the properties.If we purchase enough of the surrounding property, we would like to approach the city and rezone the land from office to mixed-use (Residential over retail).Any thoughts or strategies you have employed to make an assemblage successful?

.- Pricing that takes into account your home's unique features, which could mean going higher or lower than just lumping it in with the mix of comps that appear to be similar.This is agent specific and not necessarily related to a specific company, I see high end 'premier' listings poorly marketed by mainstream traditional companies sometimes and some 'budget' agencies where the agent just did a great job with this stuff. 

I had considered something similar with a family member of mine, but I've read enough horror stories about mixing business and money w/ family members and decided against it.

@Levi KuhlmanOops I apologize I got your post mixed up with someone else who is a new member!

Southeast Austin is a great bet between Goodnight Ranch, the long past due need for a new high school, Easton Park, Tesla, and Velocity Mixed Use.All the best to you. 

Eventually doing a mix of rentals and flips. 

Hopefully will be a mix of my own saving and equity.

In order to make RE investing a full time job he needed to mix flips in with his buy and hold properties. 

The neighborhood is mixed single family and multi family, with this property located on a more multi-family dominated street.I have good job security, $88k base pay with an additional $15k in bonuses last year.

You can do a mix or focus on one area.