His teachings suggest a paid off home, $500k in assets, and more than 1 source of income (SS if of that age, real estate, part time job, retirement/pension, etc.).

It’s so generous of you to share your valuable resources. 😊 Where are you based?

I’m looking for some valuable tips on up-and-coming areas and would really appreciate any insight you can offer.

I teach yoga here, own a business and we likely know some of the same people - it's not a big area!

Budget $15-$20k for a rewire.To take it a step further, if you build a relationship with your subcontractors they may even teach you how they estimate so you can repeatedly build a robust estimate completely on your own.Excluded from the above is foundation issues & outages in the framing (often caused by foundation issues).

Best of luck-Visiting your target market at least once is valuable for understanding the area and building trust with your local team.

If it's not and you've profitably developed land like this before, then by all means DIY.Yes, the MM will make some type of money on the deal, but I wouldn't be surprised if the 5-6 developers only work with MM as they're not interested in teaching a landowner how to develop land. 

:) Thanks for the valuable insight!

This has got me thinking if my cash would be more valuable out of state.

I have since become a revenue manager and either do it for people or teach them how to use it.