You can use these same concepts wherever you are.

Our concept is very needed in the Caribbean, but our first goal is acquisition of the land.Please take a look at what we are developing, any advise is welcome :O)www.thesurfhousebarbados.comthanksKeva

(pavementinteractive.org) is a good source, it does target pavement engineers but the concepts are the same. 

I thing you get most of the concepts that he is trying to express in this article already but I will let you be the judge of that. 

Ellen W Interior Concepts, JES Capital Investment

Given that we inspect single property DSTs before approval, it is entirely possible that a Sponsor can be approved, but an individual offering may not.It's vitally important to know who you are working with, and have the history of the players involved.

Our situation was a bit different because there wasn't an existing business -- selling to developers -- but same general concept.

Rent rate is controlled by the simple economic concept of supply/demand.

I'm just trying to conceptually think about it, and if the cashflows are not reinvested then the whole concept of time sensitive return is meaningless so i feel like it just ends up being your ROI annualized... maybe i'm just simplifying too much...

I agree with everyone that broker relationships are vital to be able to find good deals but another suggestion is to try to approach owners directly.