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I can believe it...Dubai has monopolized all steel manufacturing and crane assembly for 3000 miles around.

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Glenn I forgot to mention that being built in 1955 you most likely will have issues with lead abatement with the new EPA certified rules which will increase your rehab cost.I don't know why everyone gets worked up on a house being close to a commercial property or highway.The value of the land the house sits on is often worth way more for development than the value of the house that sits on it.You can still have someone pay you to haul off the house or gut it for parts and make some money that way.I love land next to commercial and know exactly who to market it to an dhow to sell it.Now if you are in a big subdivision with track homes on small lots that backs up to a junkie commercial business that is another story.The reality is you are probably not going to assemble all the homes for a commercial project because the front piece is the most valuable and everyone will want to much for their house making the project total cost unfeasable.

If it is hilly it will cost more to level the land.I have worked on commercial development projects such as yours before.I worked for a commercial developer assembling parcels on a very large project.The corner is the steak for the developer.That is where they get the premium money.How old is the strip center??

Leon, Even more recent than Assembly Bill 284 is the freeze on foreclosures in Las Vegas.

A friend approached me to help him with a property he inherited from his mom passing where a developer wanted to buy from him for commercial development.The developer after me catching everything in the contract to tie up the property with the seller asked me to work with him on the other parcels as he would rather be working with me than against me assembling the properties.Off I went after that for about 3 years in land development and then went into existing investment properties.I did things kamikaze style and figured them out on my own through the school of hard knocks.In your situation if you are focusing on apartments I would do the following.

So, no, institutional types don't have all the tools a local broker may have.Flexibility of an indivisual dealer to do a deal is not up to the board of directors, it doesn't need corporate approval, it isn't under time constraints of the assembly line process, marketing constraints or investor demands.

i then cranked up the heat, burner assembly ignited, and when i returned an hour later - all was off including the pilot light - not sure if the water got to temperature.