List of licensed contractors on the permit application, stamped architectural drawings, site plan or plat of survey indicating the location of the proposed structure on the property showing all setbacks to lot lines.  

Sadly, I walked away from a 400K property during DD and it cost me 8K in inspections and surveys a couple months ago (BAM...

-When you find a listing, ask the Assessor’s office: property address, flat map, survey map, google earth, -Scrub list looking for “VL” Vacant Lot.

Based on that, you should find a RE Attorney and ask for a review of all docs, including the survey.  

I downloaded almost all of the Census Bureau's American Community Survey data from its first year of publication, 2005, to its most recent, 2017, and built a linear regression model to see what metrics actually correlate to rising rents.I found the following metrics, in the following order, correlate best to rising rents:Limited supply (as measured by a growing persons-per-unit ratio)Median household income growthJob growthPopulation growthMy analysis suggests that your criteria are in reverse order from what they should be -- that growing incomes and job growth are more important than population growth.

If you're still interested in doing this, just get a survey done, present it to the city for feedback and go from there.

When the presentation is over, as they all leave, they all take an exit survey at the door. 

I believe that this community would be a valuable source of information for my study, and I would be grateful if you could take a few minutes to complete the two short surveys I've created.https://fiu.qualtrics.com/jfe/... https://fiu.qualtrics.com/jfe/... 

Right now this is what I’m seeing:1. 3-4 months minimum, possibly longer to get a survey (you need 2-3 phases of survey from the moment you close on construction loan through the foundation build)2.

@Adah N.This is survey gives a key metric that is helpful when looking at deals.