Alternative uses would be residential property or commercial (hotel/Air BNB, tourist destination, vineyard, etc) in central TX but the increased price in O&G country would come from the potential for surface damages income from O&G producers.

I am not a producer of this, so thank you to the people who shared it and produced it (GASSA)! 

Kind of...years later that property is worth nearly tripple what I paid for it and the cash flow it now produces is a big part of my current financial freedom.Note that my success story is in my mentors book because I didn't quit.

It will likely, certainly has all the potential to, produce more suffering than it attempts to avoid.You can't put a virus back in the bottle once it's let loose.

Here's where we are at:Our goal is to purchase several rental properties over the next couple of years (single family and multi-family), and ultimately to produce passive income through cashflow.

This will produce a credit history so you can start to establish credit.

This ratio typically does not produce positive cash flow. 

They also cannot produce one COVID results test.Anyway, we received an offer to purchase the building, in cash and verified funds $140k over original purchase price.

To give you cash back to re-invest in something else and earn a second return while the deal is still at work producing the first return.If the sponsor doesn't refinance, because there's nothing in it for them, you don't get as high of a return (IRR and CoC--indeed your multiple is less but you can make that up on the investment where that returned cash is placed). 

He is a high producing agent in the area, and a great potential mentor to help me get started as an agent (his personal offer).