Are you sure whatever government body is there would approve that?

In most cases when I see some body scaling up rapidly they are playing in C and D type properties, again don't get me wrong more power to you if you can do this but since I am a passive investor I prefer trouble free properties in trouble free areas. 

David,As a car guy, I'd say that even not running, if it's a mid-70s era two door and the body is in good shape, you could probably still get a couple thousand for it if you post somewhere like classiccars.com.  

I am currently interested in purchasing a city-owned property, but before I send the city a letter of interest I would like to see if anyone on BP has experience purchasing property from a city (Or government body) and what tips they may have.

Be careful in this... without leases and background checks, they sound like warm body tenants... they're there, but they aren't paying rents and they are likely to be professional tenants. 

in fact, if you are directing renters and sellers to your website via craigslist, letters, etc, why not just move the sellers/renters links off the home page, since your marketing for this secondary market is directing them to an internal page.in your latest news section on some pages you mix listings with news articles (not good) but when you click on a news article, the sidebar widget separates between latest news and latest listings (good).skipping back to the sellers/renters/buyers pages, there is no call to action in the body.

Im looking to develop small bodies of land, and make them "cool" with the upper echelon.

That is why I just wonder why people think that every body who is in this mess today willingly walked themselves into it.

If you look at my body of work, my purpose in life to provide financial education for the inner city so I just shake my head since I advocate for underprivileged minorities.

Having the surveys done on each lot is pretty far down the list of things that need to be done when subdividing, here where I am at,  yes each lot will have to be surveyed, pinned, and plotted on the final plat at the courthouse, you have to decide how many lots and if the governing body will even approve the proposed subdivision.