Making 20k on a flip as a one off is decent, but making 200k on 10 flips in a year is a whole different ballgame. 

You will have to be careful with some stories because times were very different over the last decade.

.- The MTR strategy is great and you have the advantage of listing it with multiple different platforms.  3/2 will attract a certain type of of MTR client, one that travels with families most likley or displaced families, so your pool of applicants may be a little limited- If the long term play is appreciation, than breaking even sounds good.

Either become a better buyer or sell to different investors. 

Hi Aryan,You might want to find a different place to live (where this is not an issue).I'm not saying right or wrong here, I'm just considering the PITA factor of it.https://www.apartments.com/provo-ut/?

The main difference is we will be selling the homes and leasing the land.

Every county has a different system - some are free and some are not.

So, take all this with a shaker of salt.Capital Gains tax has two different tiers.

Like @Joe Funari said, every property/market can and will be different. 

Maybe your perception was different, but I remember the sense we had at Wacker Neuson going through rounds of layoffs, dealers defaulting, order cancelations and no sense when the construction equipment industry would recover, or if there would even be a full recovery - ever.. nobody had ever seen anything like it. 2008 was bad, I think Lehman Brothers collapsed in October, by 2009 we had to assume the equipment industry would never be the same.