I also highly endorse Jonathan Hoover with Aegis Environmental if you need help in Indy for underground storage tank remediation and for all of your other environmental cleanup needs.

This is what you do...1) tie up the property on a contract with a LONG feasibility period2) do all of your studies i.e environmental, city/usage, percolation test, geotech, wetland, etc, etc, etc.3) Work with the city/county to determine the max lot coverage/square footage/cleared area/etc4) find plans or have them drawn for this duplex and take those to the city/county for approval5) Take everything all the way to the stage of being almost ready to pickup the permit but don't pay for it and pick it up quite yet.6) Package it up and go "sell the dream" to an investor who can afford to actually build the thing.Around here, raw land might be worth 1/3rd the final value of a project so if you think a brand new duplex there would be worth $150k, your new package deal could be worth around $50k.A word of caution... in my area, most vacant land is vacant because it's unbuildable or does not make economic sense to build on.

Hannah.. this flew people into the Hobergs resorts in DC 3s in the 30s and 40s So then when they lost the tourist trade and really no industry.. it became a place were more modest second homes were being bought and used.. and it was very much a SF based area.. and had some pretty big SF Italian communities. in the 1920's over 60,000 lots were platted from NICE to Clear lake Oaks and the city of Clearlake Including 7k lots behind Lucerne which virtually none of them were ever built on .. a Guy Named George Triphon bought most of those lots in the early 60s  surveyed them all pushed roads through but never followed through with water or sewer leaving them unbuildable and a environmental mess. you can see that as you drive hwy 20 up behind the city of Lucerne.. those lots were left to rot and then become the fodder of the guys who buy worthless tax sale lots and resell them on line.. we know all about the land geek and those dudes.

For example, if you invest in a property that may have environmental concerns you run the risk of not closing in time.

Be extra careful investigating any environmental or structural issues that could be expensive to remediate.

Account Closed   Depending on the type of property environmentals could also be an issue.

The poison is effective and isnt environmentally harmful.

Lots of potential environmental hazards there.

I currently work on the side doing estate sales on eBay while working to finish my degree in Biology / environmental science.

You may need a phase 1 environmental assesment.