One other exception is if you're in a very high demand / growth area such as San Francisco.

@Robert Ellis - Oftentimes buildings are zoned with ground floor retail to stimulate the growth of walkable "downtown" areas.  

So unfortunately, the only way to use these assets to purchase real estate would be to pull the money out of the IRA incurring the 10% penalty plus paying the taxes on the growth in the account.

This task is no easy one and rather than making it too complicated, for argument sake, it may be better to just go with published NAA figures to plug into your data.

Where would you invest in land for multi-generational long term growth?

The CES is the gold standard when it comes to analyzing the job growth of a market.

They are the ones who will be tasked with the job. and yeah it's a very small town, lumberton is nearby but it's a very poor are and $1000 rent there is on the high side, so be careful. 

The earnings and growth potential made me want to get more into real estate.

THAT'S how you gain and maintain marketshare, sticking to examples we all know about, we can point to biggerpockets, we can point to the growth of zillow/redfin/etc (hate em all you want, you can't argue with success), the growth of the iPhone from when it was launched, and so on.For existing giants trying to maintain marketshare, you just gotta stay relevant, you gotta stay important, you gotta keep innovating.

This is a great sub-market of Orlando to be in and we're seeing lots of growth around the area.