Usually my clients hire a soils engineer and their guys go out there and dig a hole about 12"x12".

On what I'll call my Sandy house- mold remediation would have been 3 to have done professionally.

Sandy Morales

How to examine Land quality, soil/ mineral use, if land is in sink hole, liquefaction zone risk

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The Utah REIA has meetups every first Thursday of the month down in Sandy.

So I have a 4X6 index card that I wrote up after my wonderful step mother called a family meeting and said "One of these days I am going to die, here is what I want you kids to do, here is where things go, I have a list of who gets what for my side of the family, you kids get the rest." kind of thing and I had my first anxiety attack.The 4X6 card is a list of the things I HAVE TO DO so that when I come out of the other side of a very dark place things will be in place already and I didn't have a chance to do something stupid like buy 200 acres of land in some tropical 3rd world country that is all buzz right now and think I am going to start a coffee farm on a place with no top soil (if you have read about any of the Costa Rica scams you know what I am talking about) and have NOTHING to fall back in when that blows up in my face. 

Storm ponds, storm sewer, property water flow, fire hydrants, utility access, sidewalks, soil compaction, driveway access, landscaping, facade requirements, fire suppression, fire walls or building separation distance, fencing, setbacks, required parking, outside lighting, epa, Corp engineers, grading/elevation, etc.  

But look into the Granville condominium (Sandy's spring).

Everything from the type of soil, cement, construction materials, and anything related to renovating will be relevant.