Are there any creative ideas that I could use that people don't normally speak of that may help with creating more leads?

Once you've gotten your feet wet, shadowed someone around and calculated your risks, borrowing money at a decent rate like a HELOC is a perfect way to finance your deals .Get creative in your financing, invite friends, family or anyone that has some trust in you to invest.

Also, I think your flexibility with holding it in a creative way is good, because perhaps holding on to this land while developing some of it makes the most sense. 

He's open to it, but warned that it almost guarantees an audit and requires added 'precision' on our part -- which could mean IRS headaches if we ACCIDENTALLY/UNKNOWINGLY did something out of bounds or didn't document something correctly, etc.My conclusion is if you're doing 'simple' SFHs, and/or you're not an LLC, or anything 'special' a CPA who specializes in Taxes and REI work would do the job, an EA who's good with REI would likely be better; but, if you want to do anything unique/creative, or outside the box or also wish to then have the business succession planning or have kids and want to have the business continue should anything happen to you...and all that added planning, maybe a tax lawyer would be best, or a Tax Layer who works closely with the CPA/EA...make sense?

CFREI Monthly Meeting is Tomorrow March 1st at Edgewater HighAnother meetup from local Investor @Foster Algier Thursday March 2nd https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/521/topics/41...Saturday March 4th CFREI hosting: Creative Financing (With a Twist)" with Chris McClatchey

(I assume she has her own creative financing going on).  

Listening to Brandon Turner I got creative.  

Creativity is half the fun.

I haven't ever heard of anyone doing this before so I'm not sure if it would be a valid way to go about being "creative" in a really tough market. 

Get creative.