During development our contractor put a lot of dirt to level the lot.

I started off buying rentals, and then moved to other strategies like land development, spec building, note buying, wholesaling and rehabbing.I currenlty do rehab flips which is the large majority of my income.

I mostly purchase REO properties to flip, and a large majority of them come from contacts I have developed so I get them before the competition knows about them, that is my game.

One of our prospective tenants had some credit problems - but they were all concentrated in one period 4 years ago and due to specific life events.Everything since then was in good shape.

The problem is my cousin...One of thethings he does is, when a prospective buyer of my property tries to phone him to discuss their plan to buy, he just doesn't bother calling them back.

Once you reach a certain point, you realize you can't do everything yourself so bring on a team or develop a system to put things on autopilot for you.

These are rather extremes.Eventually blocks like these will be torn down by the City's decree so that a private developer can build something of value.

I'm also busy managing other people's properties and wouldn't be able to spend tons of time with a maybe prospect.

Not sure it would be a popular enough topic, but construction/development would interest me.Or maybe, single family vs multifamily, commercial.

If I could find a private investor to loan at a low cost I would do it, I just haven't developed those kinds of relationships yet.I could get money to put roughly 40% down but I'm not sure if that would help.