Establish an emergency fund, manage your debt, and save for a down payment to lay the groundwork for your financial future.

Another project I’m working on is the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) movement.  

You can get 80% - 90% of the purchase price depending on your credit, your experience, and the spread on the project.

If your credit is 680 or better, no lates on your credit report, and a clean b.g. and I can get a new investor started all day long given it is the right project.The right beginner project is one where the purchase price is less than 100k, total project cost less than 200k and loan amount around 120k - 150k. 

If you want to flip or do more short term projects, then a HELOC may be a good idea if you can find a lender for that and you can keep your likely low rate.

Design your own value add project.

You would definitely want to get a few contractor bids and work with investor friendly realtor on this project.

Advani directs our gaze towards the burgeoning economies projected to flourish at a rate of 3.9%, juxtaposed against the languid 1.2% growth of advanced economies.

Use the other 80% +/-of cash  to invest in the project.

Some context would really help, i.e. are we talking about commercial zoned land or residential zoned land, and if we are talking about residential land, are we talking about low density/agricultural or land where you could put an SFR tract or row townhomes or even a dense apartment/condo project?