There is a price breakdown showing the various environmental studies that would be done, but am I crazy to be shocked by that number?

I am currently in a leadership role in an environmental services department at a hospital (housekeeping).  

So this works conjunction with #2... the more valuable the home that will be built, the higher allowable value for the land (scrape and removal being a set cost, assuming lead/asbestos/other environmentals are accounted for).  

I am 23 years old and currently in an internship as an Environmental Scientist in Orlando, Florida. 

Some of the saving on the 1's and 2's was done in small increments - for example, being more conscious at the grocery store to buy the store brand items when we could.

I could not possibly buy and keep everything even at this point of my investing.There are ways to structure deals where the property can be sold and an interest retained, and I have done that in several different ways mostly with options and equity participation agreements, but every once in a while, a huge cash infusion to the business from a retail flip puts the conscious at a whole new level of 'piece of mind.'

(You could be locked out......timing is very important).Some of the items in the file folder include;A skinny contract of sale...... this is a one page written in easy to understand language with only one out clause.A Hybrid contract of sale... a way to close more transactions by joint ventureA commercial contract of sale, 3 pages with special buyer requirements related to environmental conditions, existing suppliers, surveys, buried oil tanks and other conditions that must be known to make a profitable and safe transactionAn option agreementAn informational pocket pack with 52 options to financing and control a building without conventional financingBlank checks, pens, carbon paper, A list of referencesDisclosures for lead paint and other state or federal requirementsCell phone with camera to take pictures of the nice things and negative aspects of the property and to take a picture of the contract to email confirmation to seller and to your title company or lenderA gift, something for the seller to remember you by, I give Indian Head Nickels away, pens, note pads.Blank addendum forms  - these are used to attach to your purchase agreements (you don't want a lot of chicken scratching on your contracts; use them to write some of the following;1.

This has definitely been a concern for me which is why I made a conscious effort to purchase properties that were no more than $100k.  

In California we have some of the strictest environmental standards there are. 

That provides enough time for financing, surveys,  environmental, inspections, etc.