Although I am looking at a unique property later this week. its 200 acres of which 50 acres is already developed into ranchettes and ready to build and then there appears to be a monster stand of timber on the remaining 150 acres.. they want the moon for it..

Without that I would say a person needs a mountain of capital to fund great attorneys and cover the considerable time to go through everything, not to mention create all resources from 0 and carry monster costs before receiving dime 1.It's not as simple as just fill out some paperwork, get a license and start plopping people in a property, not for a half-way house.

He did a cash out refi to recoup some of his funds, but it cash flows like a monster

The more I researched this issue, the more it sounded like monsters under the bed. 

Per Cathie Wood's ARKK Innovation strategies, these are the tech revolution area for next 10 years:Deep Learning ( Nvidia, Google,FB)Re-invention of data center (Cisco, Junipers)Virtual Worlds (Microsoft,Apple)Digital Wallets (Square, Paypal)Bitcoin (paypal/Visa)EV (Tsla/Nio/Xpeng/QuantumScape,Blink,Chargepoint)Automation (Apple, google, everybody)Autonomous Ride Hailing (Uber)Delivery Drones (Amazon)Orbital Aerospace (Nasa,Lockheed,Spacex)3D printing(HP)Long read sequeincing (Genentech)Medical Robotics (Intuitive Surgical)Cell and Gene Therapy ( many startups)All these companies has HQ and research facility in Bay Area.

Blame laws and regulations all you like but those are the only things keeping you all from being complete monsters.

People talk about UBIT like a kid talks about a big scary monster under the bed.  

b) As the years passed and the property/economy/neighborhood/whatever improved, this once negative cash flowing property may have turned into a positive flowing cash monster?

They got those robots now. 

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