Remember that people are living longer which will cause larger growth to the warm weather areas if trends continue as they have been going for the last 50 years.

If they are not paying rent on time, in what universe will they have enough credit on their credit card to pay rent?  

This gives you many benefits the most important being control what gets done in the revival, charisma for your business (you help rebuild the neighborhood people can feel warm and fuzzy about that when they buy a house) and tax advantages.

Thanks for the warm welcome gentlemen!

How are you on BOCA, OSHA, Environmental Engineering, Marketing, Planning & Zoning aspects, obtaing zoning variances, politics in the area, working with utilities and thier engineers, financing projects......I could go on....Point is, you won't get this out of a few books, universities offer degree programs and new grads still are only prepared to assist an established developer.Best thing is to work with one and learn.Many developers were GCs before they started, probably started with a small number of lots and built in phases or got an existing area and built to suit.

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone!

@Ibrahim S: Thanks for the warm welcome...

Borrowers did not wait on me.I was lucky to have been where I was having a university and great business college here I employed accounting and finance students, jrs and srs as well as grads.

I'm glad to be here and will be posting on anything that I can't find the answer to in the search function.Thanks for the warm welcome I'm sure I'll receive.Carl

I attended University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music – top 5 in the nation.