Think eye make-up: nothing garish, but something to enlarge its appearance.2.

don't know about there but my niece is doing a 500 sq foot addition to her house in Santa Clara  275k.. for enlarging master bedroom. and houses in Palo Alto sell for over 2k a sq ft 

:D Yes I can see that 1/2 ac does seem like a waste of space...dont forget in all that other space- there will be gathering areas- gardens- paths- walking trail- lost of visual extras- tree cabana's cabins that can be utilized; foot bridges- a foot path that connects all places back with a loop to the Main office/ utility house. porches; decks; a using of the outdoors to enlarge the living.

**To maximize table and graphs you will need to go to my biggerpockets blog on my profile and click the pictures to enlarge.

Here is the graphic I use in the book to indicate the order of scheduling for a typical renovation project -- the book goes into a lot of detail on the scope of each task, the dependencies between them and the completion time frames you should expect, but this should give you an idea of the task order (click to ENLARGE):

Get some cross paper, then get staples to enlarge it to 11x18 or 18x24.  

I added the budget to my rental website (temporarily) so you can click it and it will enlarge enough to be able to see it Budget per 1 house This is the budget for the build (it does not include all other cost associated with the project like soft costs and the like).

On its right it is water tank so I cannot enlarge the TV nook.

Silly question:When small pics are posted here, any way on the site to enlarge them to see more details?

That would enlarge two of the bedrooms.