Clean soils, no grade challenges, no power lines or utilities running through the property, no street improvements (curbs, gutters, sidewalks, new lanes, streetlights),etc.

Women and elderly people have been the targets while walking on the sidewalk during the daytime and women get car windows smashed while in the car at stoplight, gas station or parking lot while the criminal takes the purse/laptop bag on the passenger seat. 

You may want to hire a landscaper to keep your sidewalks and driveways clear from ice and snow. 

It's important to maintain detailed records of these expenses.Non-Qualified Expenditures: As mentioned, there are certain costs that do not qualify for the credit, such as acquisition costs, interest on rehabilitation loans, landscaping, sidewalks, and parking lots.

You need sewer, water, electric, fiber optics, sidewalks, fire hydrants, storm ponds?

There's way too much to breakdown here, but a brief synopsis; essentially the work will include, fixing old pavement, changing full concrete medians to include trees, redoing powerlines that awfully crisscross and look cluttered, adding more sidewalks, better lighting, and general cleaning up the appearance.

City services matter, and I found that sorely lacking TN wide, little things that make big differences like parks, sidewalks, drainage waste water etc etc.. 

Actual neighbors and neighborhoods, people who have lived here for generations and the city and county flinging money at streetlights and sidewalks and demolishing junk properties.It is interesting that the address you mention on Wildwood is almost at the cusp of the good and bad parts of 29203.  

Would then add covered sidewalk frontage and a new facade or signage. 

The second licensed contractor said you have to replace footings and I was glad he did because one footing had been poured on top of a sidewalk so it wasn't even a footing and the correct footing posts were larger than what I had.