for instance you can have a perfectly good home do everything right but if its in Texas with their bad soils and the clay moves on you and your house cracks like humpty dumpty house well not much you can do about that you shell out the money to fix it.. you just lost 2 to 5 years of any cash flow you hoped to make...

Lo & behold, there was evidence of a buried oil tank on the side of the house, hidden underneath the deck & porch lattices. 

For other parcel use types, for your sake I sure hope you do a boundary walk, view soil surveys, and all the other due diligence you should before handing the cashier's check to the parcel owner/seller.

Also made it all contingent on site eval and what comes out of soil eval/recommendation.

Unlike the old TICs which required unanimous consent, and all the individual investors to share in the liability of the debt, these new structures have an LLC which the investors belong to, and then a TIC underneath it.

Or you can create what are called disregarded llcs which will fall underneath your main LLC, at tax time you will still only have one filing.  

The other builder I'm talking to wants me to get an engineer involved to look at the soil and foundation plans.

Mainly cosmetics thought out the main area of the house, but the foundation has shifted. 3 walls are caved due to the soil and drainage.

So if I was bidding this project: a ton of big tree removals, with stump grinding, and soil backfill, on a slope to accommodate space for a 3000sqft home, $25,000 would be more than enough.I've done tree removal projects like this before in Los Angeles, typically under $5000.I'm not convinced there's any way this could cost more than caisson work.

Adding some top soil and grading it away from the foundation is an easy fix for this.