For a core and shell building guess you are looking at $150 per sf and up depending construction type. 

Trust that RECFs are here to say and are going to Rock the Real Estate, Lending, and Security Institutions to their core.  

No one is mentioning it, so I feel compelled to.I am a transplant to Colorado, Like many other people who live here right now.

Sorry, if this was more than you were asking but I have considered opening my own escrow company, I have been in core leadership at 2 separate ones and seen almost every scenario struggle.

Due diligence at its core is going to depend on the loan type and origin and the collateral.  

If you are urban core then you usually can sell the land for a lot more per acre as they can build up for larger projects.     

And if the day comes where I would be compelled to do that, I would simply get out of the rental business. 

They claim they have no records at all, but that whoever buys the property must have a soil coring test done.

I like the KC housing stock I would look out of the urban core and try to find some of those nice ranchers in the suburbs

Because the majority of the properties where in the urban core, and the time was the early 90's when there were literally hundreds and hundreds of competing properties on the market because of the S & L crises, we sometimes had a hard time finding tenants.When a tenant was found, they often didn't have the financial resources to secure a lease.