And by cost per lot, I mean the cost to run utilities, pave roads, curbs, etc.   

Now to sell it you have to put in water and sewer , curb and gutter , roads and clear the lots .

Here garbage can only be pulled out to the curb after 6:00PM the day before.

I subscribe to Curbed Atlanta, they will send you some market tread and development news periodically that I find interesting and some entertaining. 

They are all brick and have plenty of curb appeal.

And IMO in the 'big picture' the regulations helped curb abuse in NC.

Plus, the vaccine is getting rolled out which will curb the spread tremendously.

After the bubble popped, many apartment buildings started displaying their balloons by the curb again because they had vacancies to fill as workers moved away from the area.The dot-com bubble was an extreme example that affected mostly the San Francisco Bay Area (no more venture capital funding) and the financial district of New York City (no more IPOs for Wall Street underwriters to bring to market).

In the 1990s, the Mercury News also ran a story about San Jose's Urban Forest initiative that required homeowners to plant a tree between the sidewalk and curb if feasible to do so (either then of when they sold the house).

@Adrienne Bryson  when you say you tell sellers you USUALLY pass them on your inferring that you close most of the time.. when in fact you probably never buy any property.this is the crux of the matter. selling RE without a license.. and the issue is the states just don't have the man power to crack down on this.. some are though, Ohio,  FLA,, CA  at the rate of wholesalers messing up transactions I suspect within 3 to 5 years this activity will be curbed quite a bit and you folks will HAVE to Have your funding to make these deals. you WILL have to buy them then resell them.like I have said in this post 2 to 3% can make a living the rest just blow whatever money they have on yellow letters.. and never do a thing.... its a tough business.Its also very very regionalized.. if your in an area of low value RE in an area which in the US are usually filled with owners that are regular joes and not really very astute to the RE game. its prime grounds for fast talking wholesalers.I actually buy a lot of property in a lot of markets.. well over 30 to 40 a month.. some of my vendors get them from wholesalers occasionally .. but most do not.