Focus on the soil of the land I probably bought the worst piece of land in the best location because the soil is so saturated to where there’s no way I can keep the house level.

It is a small beach town that was destroyed during Sandy. 

For example we have pockets in our region that are notoriously bad for foundation issues, often due to being near rivers and more of a flat plain type terrain that allows water to pool and further cause settling issues in our already too moldable clay like soil.

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The land is 25% of my loan amount and I will be trying to build a single family 2000-3000 sq ft home (depending on the foundation/ earthwork costs).I’ll need a soil test to get an idea of what kind of foundation I’ll need.

It cost tens of thousands of dollars to install the rocks because we hauled away 6 inches of soil, put down 4 inches of crushed concrete base and 2 inches of rocks so we have very few problems with weeds coming up through the rocks and I think we more than recovered our costs in about 7 to 10 years plus we don't have to pay for grass seeds, don't pay for the water and no longer pay a gardener.

Do a perc test to make sure the soil is good.

You'd be surprised how much water can leak underground and not be obvious....depends on your soil and where its leaking. 

Then the underground water will eat away the caved-in soil, so the sinkhole ends up being almost impossible to ever solve.In our cat house, we were fortunate that they apparently only pissed on the floors.

@Kyle Jones -@Brad Sand is correct.