He may choose to hold off showing until you vacate, or has right to show while you live there with 24 hour showing  notice, he has no legal responsibility to make any effort to rent apartment if you leave early. but must repay any double rent back to you if he rents out before Dec 31st and lets new tenant in.

You already have some experience and with additional effort, will quickly climb the REI ladder to its pinnacle.

It doesn't require much effort although it's a slow moving process.Here's what I did:Between January and April of each year, I'd check to see to what the tax value of any homes I purchased from the prior year on the county website (here's the link for Cuyahoga county): https://myplace.cuyahogacounty.us/If I was able to buy a house from the prior year for a meaningful amount less I'd submit an appeal to lower the property taxes. 

I'd put your efforts to a different project.

Honestly I am finding that while I was saving money to be able to do this, I probably allocated my efforts in the wrong areas (knowledge wise).

Do not buy it from them unless you are being well compensated for your time and effort.

You already have some experience and with additional effort, will quickly climb the REI ladder to its pinnacle.

Work with arch, builder, etc. to create package showing that the land is worth lets say 9 million to throw a number out there for your effort of creating a package.

It's probably because of the cost/damage factor, but sooner or later it may become worth the effort for some examples. :)  

Depends solely on the efforts of othersI think number 1 is pretty easy to see and understand it will apply to most investments in the market period.For number 2, common enterprise, we get a little abstract.