Dust yourself off and keep moving forward.If you can find someone doing what you want to do and shadow a few deals with them in exchange for some grunt work, that may help with confidence and things to watch out for.As far as where to invest, is there a cheaper area that is on the border or transition area that is cheaper but not too low income, and still accessible to you?

Congrats on the connections and prospects you have in SLC, a grew up not far away (just across border in Evanston)...

Near Norris Square Park. For a new build. Numbers look good, just concerned about future of area.

After Colombian troops killed a rebel leader, supposedly in Ecuador.Chavez ordered 10 tank batallions to the border with Colombia and shut down the Venezualan embassy in that country.http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?

In fact, I think they have a meeting over in Merrilville tonight.Anyway, I am just across the border in Chicago, so feel free to contact me with any questions.

The general concepts are all the same with a few things being unique to our side of the border.

My parents live off Old Decatur "Saginaw Fort Worth border" and the neighborhood is great.

It may be relevant, may not.In San Diego county to use a comp just over the zip code border in Bonita for a property in National City is not even close to being relevant.

He would eventually like to move across the border into upstate New York and he has a joint USbanking account with his US citizen fiancée already.

This one has a MUD at the southern border of the property I am trying to see if will allow a water / sewer tap sometime in the future or for redundancy / emergency purposes.In Texas and many other states you can pass along the submetered (or allocated) costs of private utilities to cover the cost of the service - the risk is really about the capital costs (hence diligence), and less about run & maintain if you're doing that properly.My point to all this nonsense is that you're already taking on additional risk by evaluating a smaller park, you might as well keep private utilities on the table if they're in good shape, you can get comfortable with them, and use it as a negotiation point for instant equity / further upside.But I can see from your story @Paul Stout that the existing septic there looked like a big problem, and for a small Park could make the entire economics go sideways.