Do you know for a fact that it contains nothing "about business that is worth reading"?

Because to your point, a lot of these gentrified areas are centrally located to many metropolitan areas that contain high skill jobs within a stones throw from where they live, yet the people in the communities are seemingly never "skilled" enough to take advantage of the career opportunity in their back yards.

I have a number of ideas one is buy a lot and sit on it for appreciation while putting container style homes on the property to make the money back on the lot to eventually build out there.Is anyone experienced in permitting out in East Hampton/ Montauk, Unsure of permitting on 'temporary' container style homes.

You might want to check out Simplisafe as their unit is self contained cellular. 

Cary has a pleasant acronym  Containment Area for Relocated Yankees. 

This book does not contain practical real estate knowledge, but it will give you a strong "why" behind wanting to become an investor. 

They're an excellent foundation that contain actionable tips to get you started.

There are a few self-contained guides that you can access here: https://www.biggerpockets.com/guidesI really like the alerts feature that can quickly guide you to current topics that might interest you: http://www.biggerpockets.com/alerts

Buying all cash allows seriously diminishes your ROI, but you have no debt.Buying on leverage provides a higher ROI, but contains more risk.At he end of the day, it all comes down to what you feel comfortable with.

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