Well Giacomo, Sometimes you are the football and sometimes you are the foot.

Nothing to do with water everything to do with building in fire prone These same areas have these fires every 20 to 30 years as the Shamece brush and manzanita brush grows back after being burnt to the ground.. it grows back to 10 to 20 foot tall and when that happens and it catches fire there is no stopping it.

They may require a foundation (footings) of some sort, a different home set up, among other things.

I went on Zillow and found this 1900 square foot house with 2 bed, 1 bath and a nice floorplan in the listing.

I have an opportunity on a 12 unit property but being in SoCal and never setting foot in MS I wanted to ask around 

And then I'd have to foot the bill...

We do engineer hardwood and no Lux viynl like our competitors So all these things probably cost me 25k pre house but we have been selling them for 100k higher than Lennar for same sq ft and have created the highest priced development in town. we are approaching 400 a foot for finished product which was unheard of in Canby Oregon.U can see the homes and the finishs if you go to  Ivyridgeestatescanby  dot com. 

I've seen many responses from contractors, saying they've got to buy materials, pay their workers, etc and if they don't know you, you should expect to pay a deposit.I can see both sides of the problem.Contractors, if I foot the bill for the materials, your risk is lessened.How can I propose a fair solution to my contractors?

As an analogy to real estate… by starting of with a couple of smaller deals you will be on a much better footing to know more of the ins and outs of doing real estate deals so you aren’t a novice when you get to the 20 unit deal where if you miss something you don’t end up like the Tesla driver with lots of enthusiasm but not a lot of practical experience and you get burned.All the best!

Engineer didn't note if there were frost free footings.