Some states/counties may allot for some work to be done to protect the Investment (e.g.

I am sure you have allot to contribute to this community.

Very impractical, but allot of fun.

Jim Bennett was great, he kept going well past his allotted time, I finally bailed after 9:15 or so, it'd been a long day for me at that point!

There is allot of information out there that can guide you but until you have a couple under your belt in your environment its just all educated guesses. 

I usually see commercial developers budget for a 4 year project.After land seller delays,political delays,zoning and site delays,construction and phase funding drying up these projects can take up to 10 years to get the first phase going.If there are multiple phases you could be looking at up to 20 to 25 years to finish.Everything constantly changes.The people in local city and county changes.The mayor can change.Budgets from the city and county allotted to development change.Type of project and viability can change etc.Used to developers just made an LLC with high LTV and put a little coin in on high non-recourse say 90% with 10% down.Maybe 85%,10% down,and 5% mezz debt.That has all changed.Lenders want recourse and your first born now and cities and counties need monetary assurances they won't be left finishing up a half built project of roads and lighting and the tax payer footing the bill.They want you to pony up other trophy properties in your portfolio as collateral.This has caused developers to be ultra conservative on what they can pay for land to develop along with projected rents they will get during lease up and completion.

Then people can submit questions ahead of time and the speaker can pick which ones to answer for the alloted time.

Since you're working a corporate job, you may need to remain very passive in terms of your time allotment.

We have learned allot of dos and don'ts along the way but are hoping to share our knowledge and glean from the knowledge of others.BTW - we both work full time jobs in totally unrelated fields.  

The key to this type of transaction is having a way to market all properties within the alloted time frame, per the agreement (the "contract")...The second key to my success is pricing.