Or should I stick to my plan, rent it out, and hopefully have a lot more equity a few years down the road?

Sunday morning I saw one of them putting up a sign by the side of the road near the refinery.

Should I not consider going down this road? 

@Ryan Bertolami look near Baseline Road.

Nothing wrong with buying into one where the front end work has already been identified and completed.

This will allow you to identify normal costs that occur on both the buy and sales side of the transaction.

Don’t venture down that road.

I could meet you at the Starbucks on Spring Garden Road at 11am or 12pm tomorrow.  

@Julio Velazquez, as Abel said, you won't need attorney and accountant until further down the road.

From the time Hawaii was identified as a strong possibility I began market research ( I did live in Hawaii for four years prior so it is not a completely new area for me), educating myself on marketing, building a real estate business, generating leads, the top brokers and agents in the area, successful business models and was to track leads.