I've been reading as much as I can on the subject, particularly the commercial investment/sales front as that's the field I would like to enter into, or operate primarily in, but I'm curious as to what self-education sources an ACTUAL commercial broker might suggest to a junior/inexperienced agent looking become a competent CRE sales professional in the future, without wanting to harvest a kidney in order to pay for it.

I plan to hold the property long-term, so harvesting some equity while the market is high seems like it might make sense.

In five years cover the entire US carbon footprint by planting bamboo and switching to it and outlawing SPF harvesting from Arboreal forests (Cananda).  

Many have separated private lending from other RE ventures to diversify risk and use any losses from one business and use it for tax harvesting.

Are you anti logging and Timber harvesting..

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The only thing I'd have to double check is when is the sec121 exclusion for the $250k capital gains tax exclusion is applied, but I'm pretty sure its applied after...Capital gains is taxed at the Federal level, and I believe from all the discussions also by California.You could tax loss harvest any other capital assets that might be down, e.g. stocks.I don't advocate the charitable donation for the sake of tax... 

As these people start to sell off to harvest the high prices, they'll be selling to people who either live here full time or will have to STR their properties for much, much higher prices, and the rest of us that have good places won't have to compete with the bottom feeders. 

-I pull in ~9K/month of cash flow, but it's all tax free from the depreciation-I can harvest ~$1MM of cash at the end of this year after I refi some mobile home parks, but my DTI will be high thenTraditional lenders scoff at my taxable income, as if it's really the income that I make. 

There are berries that can be harvested early spring through mid summer, others that are ready mid summer and more for the later season.