Well, have a couple of competitors that are exclusively apartments/dev land for same.Their marketing is targeted at investors along with the mailing list.However, yes, you can get bad/good brokers in the same firm. 

I'm Robert from Chicago land area, passionate about real estate investing for the last 8 years.

I realized things had gone awry when 9 months had gone by, and he still hadn't cancelled the Land Contracts on the non performers we invested in. 

There are options for 50% of land covering 100% of construction 

Adding it to land on a permanent foundation does preserve the value however.  

I'm orginaly from Sugar Land!

Your a 1099, so you have to pay your own tax's, so after allocating for that what you ACTUALLY get is $3,624.40You spent 60 hours talking to and working with potentials that resulted in 0, to land on this 1 that DID result in income, and spent another 30 hours in total on this, making for 90 hours labor investment too achieve $3,642.40.   

House was in bad shape with outdated carpeting, wallpaper etc....

Quote from @Marcus Clouse: It all boils down to lot cost and mainly sub contractor costs.I just did a breakdown of costs from michigan vs texas where I build now.The framing package is basically the same either state. way more than land cost and subcontractor cost

Not only do we have high STR/MTR demand, but we have an endless line of people that want to live here and yet very little buildable land, the result of which is consistently strong appreciation.If you have the option, I would consider a townhome over a condo.