Without knowing the status of the project, I would like to add that you might be able to save some taxes if you sell your land to a closely held S-corp. if you dont do that, the appreciation in the land will be taxed as ordinary.

You can type in any city or even zipcode and it gives you all kinds of great info, household income, population, housing vacancy, housing stock age, mix of multifamily vs single family ect :https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/community_facts.xhtmlHUD produces occasional annual reports for most metros:https://www.huduser.gov/portal/ushmc/chma_archive.htmlThe Local County Website or city Municipal websites often have great research as well.Development is important in a growing metro because it shows you where people and business are moving.

So I have them in a ladder like rotation, the first 5 yrs I only have two balloon payments, but I have forecasted that I can afford 3 at year 7 and etc... as you pay off, your surplus grows and you get a snowball effect.

If you can offer this service in a reasonable, cost effective way , (which I think today's technology allows you to do), I think there's a lot of potential to grow, just by virtue of the fact that landlords know other landlords, and your name will be out there.

This is key to growing a real estate portfolio at a reasonable fast pace.

There are a pretty good amount of deals around here with such a huge/growing job market around me.

The faster the cash value grows, the faster their risk is eliminated.They also have the risk that the insured could die early.

And over the long haul the DC market will probably continue to grow your equity.

Exports will suffer a blow as well as less investors will look at this area in terms of growing their business.

This is commonly referred to as the BRRRR strategy.If you are looking to grow a portfolio to gain passive income to replace your current income this is a perfect strategy to use.