I leveraged my owned land to build my personal home.

.- Cities like Toronto will levy another tax (Vacant Home tax) equivalent to 1% of the current assessed value of the property if the property is not occupied (rented, owner-occupied, family occupied, all count as occupied)- Land Transfer Tax: while the Province of Ontario charges anywhere between 0.5 - 2% of Land Transfer Tax when your transaction closes, you should expect to pay this amount twice if the property is in the City of Toronto .

"Is business ownership without owning the land still considered real estate investing?

When we got home the pool was split pea green, and it took more than a week to get the pool back in shape.  

Sacramento is decidedly NOT the land of GSW!

But I would also make sure that you get a sewer lateral scope done to ensure the cast iron piping is in good shape. 

I have Regrid ( I use it mainly for land), its 10 bucks a month and they have vacant property information they pull from the USPA.

Don't split the work between multiple contractors if possible, finding one to do all or most of the work will keep prices down.Challenges were finding replacement pieces for certain items as manufactured homes were very different than stick built as well as going through state guidelines for affixing the house to the land

Originally posted by @Ryan Allison:@Kevin Chandler Hartford can vary street to street but with your price range you should be able to land something there based on what you're looking for. 

@Dhruv Patel I believe you are getting ahead of yourself....Where in the US are you all-in (land acquisition, soft costs, hard construction) on new construction multi-family for $100/ft.