My education and work experience is in landscape architecture and community planning, but I am looking to move into real estate investing.

Non-pre-start costs => Soft costs (architecture, engineering, soils samples, etc.) + hard costs of construction4.

And I try to stay clear of houses that are not "normal" (houses with strange lay-outs or architecture, houses in bad neighborhoods or with bad neighbors, etc).

These guys are out there, you just have to find them.Getting approval from the HOA architectural board took a little longer than I anticipated, but we received that last night after a couple of plot plan adjustments and a good reference list (of which they called everyone on).That leads me to today - we finally started pushing some dirt around:It's not a great picture, but the dirt is now getting moved!

These aren't historic architectural masterpieces, they're cheap crappy houses made to house soldiers after WWII.

Well the building is 133 years old but has been properly maintained and still has its old architectural design in the woodwork and fireplace inside.

Architectural shingles look better, no doubt.

So the zoning issue does not really affect investors out there, but there can be architectural control committees that have a say in the exterior of your property (shingle color, house color etc...)Hope that helps.

What I mean is that I had in mind to go to 5-10 developers, show them what can potentially can be done, and then have them return to me with quotes and architectural sketches of potential apartment blocks that could be built, including parking solution.

All screening is to be approved by the architectural control committee."