In many cases we use pier and beam which is adjustable as it ages and can deal with a slowly shifting soil. 

Stay laser focused and be fair and honest.  

Along with the cost of some other small equipment like a compactor $1,000, laser kit $650.  

Question related to the framing, are the yellow beams on your first floor laminated beams (maybe another name for them)?

Wherever you invest, laser-focus your business model, meet someone on the ground who likes where they do business and can help you learn about it, and you'll be off to a good start.

Okie Dokie  wish you the best you got some good feedback here and now you can get laser focused on how to proceed and not get miffed if a lender does not react the way you expect..

This projectile was fired, coordinated by laser.

If you doubt that, look around at how many homes built in the 1920s or 1930s have their original roof beams, 2x4s in the walls, plaster on the walls, floor joists, foundations, interior doors, etc.

I really like Wilson Law Firm, Brian Wilson & Kristie Beam are the attorneys there, it's in Baxter Village in Fort Mill.  

It is laser-focused on real estate, has practitioner-instructors who actually do what they teach every day, has local support-system communities all over the country, has both local and online daily trainings and a software system that is second to none and includes such things as non-occupied owner properties, out-of-state owners, probate, private lenders and much more.