Thus...usually for our flips, Demo starts fist... so we'll pay in this manner:DEMO BUDGET: $6000- to start: 33%: $2k- progress payment: 33%: $2k- complete: 33%: $2kFLOOR INSTALL: $8000- to start: $2600- progress: 2600- complete: 2800this way you eliminate any grey areas, and usually contractors save so much for the end, and if you pay against the total, the budget will go through the roof!

Anyone have experience doing a complete demo of a house for the land?

Get a stainless one if you don't already have it so it matches the stove.Add a dishwasher - also stainless to match.Consider demoing and replacing the tile backsplash to something more modern.

Is the notion of rookies taking on a demo and build-out of new construction again too ambitious?

One that is a week away from being listed, one we just started demo ooh this week and two others that’s waiting.

@Zachary Negron No matter the condition, there's almost always a price at which a purchase makes sense - even if the home needs a complete demo and ground-up build. 

I was wondering if anyone who has done this can tell me if after comparing price per sqft of the building aspect of the project only (cost of land, environmental remediation, and demo excluded) they have found modulars to be a more cost effective way to go rather than stick built.

The only problem is that I don’t know the blocks to well, I have an interesting vacant property lead on North Bond street that’s already been demoed inside.

I will pay it off and demo it and make it into a park. 

I'm buying a home that I plan to demo and built on the lot.