So I saw this post a few days ago and have been digesting it.

Again, in Allegheny County there's a remarkable tendency to talk about the larger neighborhoods of Pittsburgh into homogeneous units and even turn large municipalities into easily-digestible chunks of sameness, it's not the truth.

These tract homes, or more or less customs? 

Jay's model of "I will give you your full asking price"  but letting the owner carry the contract with no interests is smart and makes the play digestible.

So much depends on type of development (tract vs infill) and price point.Raw land could be under 5% on  a suburban tract development, and well north of 30% for Atlanta's top neighborhoods on infill deal.

@Elizabeth Olson  quite a lot of info here to digest!  

They went out of town for 2 weeks and it was heaven, this place was totally liveable, I would have had party but my cat died, probably from stress induced by one of their screaming battles, but actually from a urinary tract blockage that would have cost over a thousand to correct (which is known to be caused by stress) anyway.

One is private education that you digest on your own, which can include books, audio recordings, video recordings, websites, and online and offline newsletters.

@Bruce Scannell you are on the right tract.

get your RE license work on a team or for a top producer then figure out what part of re you want to play in... just trying to start out with no money and no experience is a fast tract to failure .. remember 90% or better of folks on BP or anywhere else  will never do one deal.