Costs can vary a lot depending on level of finish, what community you are building in (fees can vary a lot) etc but for purposes of a very broad brush I'd use $120/SF plus soft costs (architect, engineer, survey, legal etc at another 15% over hard construction plus land, plus site work. 

Your $700 Billion in bailout dollrs at work.

Check out the latest:

http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE4AD4RF20081114

:cool:

The short answer was to form a 501(c) 3 with a broad purpose and use it as the board sees fit to do the good that they see most needs doing.

That's surely not the case and it looks poorly on you for making a broad generalization like that (just like it would look poorly on someone in Z Advice who generalized that all agents are morons).

so theres been a lot of talk about the devaluating dollar , china pulling out of the us bond market and a whole array of fear inducing headlines slipped in just below justin beiber and bristal palin updates.

That's a matter of having broad knowledge of building codes and taking a test.

I think there are a lot of variables for each of these options to determine why and where you would invest, here are my thoughts based on a "broad view" of each market.If you continued to invest in Atlanta, obviously there will continue to be growth and appreciation, depending on the location.

Doing business is broadly defined in CA.

I know it's a broad subject.

Make a list of all properties in your target purchase price range (based upon the above filters)- Determine current indebtness/equity position (by way of a title search) to determine estimated ROI for every property in your list (could be time consuming and/or expensive)- Inquire about those that meet the above standards.It's sad but true, paying cheap money for a broad list (that you have to pan to find the gold) always costs more then paying a little more for targeted list.Regards,Scott Miller