Many of the "estimating rehab costs" books are written by flippers working with Texas, Florida, or similar 1990's tract homes - for those flippers 1970's is "OLD", while in Seattle 1910 is "OLD".

I have land under co tract and you are a GC.i sent you a direct message  

I figured as much, just seems like there is a lot of information to digest out there, but probably not worth the heavy upfront payment of $10k with nothing being guaranteed.

The rest is available to you in the form of free podcasts, youtube, online forums, blogs, etc. and the old fashioned books (or Kindle if you want to be modern there too) - more information that you can digest, only time to have. 

I am now getting telemarketing calls.I like telemarketing as a acquisition technique I used it exclusively to buy timber stands and timber tracts.. we only sent mail if we could not get them on the phone.my main tip is and this is based on calls this week.. those on the other end of the line were either out sourced out of country VA style and their English was poor and so other than Hey can we add you to our buyers list..

BiggerPockets is easily the most comprehensive and easy-to-digest source of real estate investment information available on the web or otherwise.

On the positive I found 265 dollars in cash in 1 dollars bills in a closet in a readers digest hard cover I almost threw out, but a dollar fell out and I stopped just in the nick of time before it hit the trash.

Hi again, Another thought too, you said 3 1/2 acres, I really doubt you can put in a septic system for MHs on that small of tract.

my old partner in the timber business tried this.. many times when he / we bought a timber tract and that fact that it takes time to log and then put in the roads and pad and sometimes well.. and in ORegon get a building permit which can take 6 months to a year in rural acreage..if it went over a year he tried to cap gain it.. but alas that did not fly  as his/our model was to buy and flip.. you don't hold timber land for 12 to 18 months then sell.. there is no income.. you hold timber land for 40 to 60 years then harvest again.. pretty easy to see he / we were flipping dirt..

I'm completely amazed at all the information provided on this site, the blogs, the podcast etc and trying to digest it all is pretty overwhelming.