Just spent lots of time reading the various magazines (Architectural Digest is a great one - it has almost nothing to do with architecture and is all design and interior decorating), ordering books from Amazon, spending hours walking the isles at the tile/flooring shops, checking out other websites like pintrest, houzz, wayfair, etc. 

I just don't like the taxes and prefer to develop and build on the NC side of the tracts.''

Along with a free search tool called Google and the 500,000+ members of all kinds of backgrounds and experience levels on here you can get any and all info you could possibly digest in a lifetime and save all that money...

You can often check with the county or city and they usually have tax assessor digests segmented by property type.I do not like contracts I cannot terminate at anytime.If Loopnet and Costar need a contract that cannot be terminated that should tell you something.

Here are some numbers for you to digest. 1.Form a LLC, I used Legalzoom - $600, I think an attorney in NY will do it for $1,000 - $1,500a.Make LLC complianti.Publication - $500ii.Need operating agreement – additional cost if you have an attorney draft one b.Annual filing with NY state of the LLC, min $25 if no profit.2.Transfer deed to LLCa.For Nassau county, attorney will do it for $1,500b.If you do it yourself, recording fee is $1,0003.Tax seasona.Depends if the LLC is single member or multi members; Multi-member LLC offer better protectioni.Multi-member LLC will require the CPA to file K1s for each member, additional costNow you have your properties in a LLC are you protected?

This data is tabulated at the census tract level, which allows for a tremendous about of granularity when conducting market research.

@Henry Lazerow primarily mobile homes on multiple tracts of land.

It will be neat to see discussion on the tax bill itself, but also loopholes and strategies that develop once the massive bill has been digested. 

In my opinion, if you are doing one spec a time, it's too much risk, if you are doing tract housing then it's a whole new different story.

Being close to that would be undesirable to me but it's definitely not what I would consider to be a "bad area".You should be careful with tax liens as there is a rather large amount of federal land in the county and it's not uncommon to have tracts of land that have no legal access.