Addressing curb appeal, ensuring move-in readiness, and highlighting local amenities are also crucial steps.

Selling your current home to transition into a new home and rental properties is a smart move.For selling your current home, conduct a thorough market analysis to price it competitively, enhance curb appeal, and consider minor improvements.

Here is my expected cost:Land: $475kAcquisition Costs (Environmental, Survey, Geotech, Traffic Study): $25kSoft Costs (Engineering, architect, impact fees, permit, legal, closing costs, taxes, interim interest): $300kSite Development Costs: (Earthwork, underground utilities, curb cuts, fencing, stormwater, paving, landscaping): $800k ($400k/acre)Subtotal before vertical costs: $1,600,000 ($80/SF). 

We also increased curb appeal with landscaping (there was ZERO), a ledge-pack driveway, and a fire pit area.

Curbs, gutters, utilities temporary and permanent, architect plans specs, planning dept asks for changes adding fees, fencing to keep out the stealers, temporary porta potty, and then in a year you get the okay to start.

Some neighborhoods had all yellow curbs, and our MTR investor-friendly agent quickly taught us that restricted parking would be problematic (especially with us house-hacking and needing our spots).

The other rehab is cosmetic and that will have about 50 cents on the dollar valuation to add condition, modernization, curb appeal- actual costs $20000.

No problem, I go out to the city owned sidewalk and sit on the curb, off property.

when I started buying foreclosures in Atlanta metro in 2012 we got in before the hedge funds kicked us to the curb..

Now it's onto making it beautiful with new everything inside, laundry room, and curb appeal.