Perhaps they can provide weekly updates here on the status of the development.

The next thing I would do is drive a few prospective areas that I might want to invest in later.

I had grown very close to him and had developed a great deal of trust for this person.

How much is typical price to pay someone to develop land?

The best way to develop a solid SOW is this - you start off with what you are visualizing in your head, send drawings, pictures and products that you like.

As I develop trust and confidence in them, I invest more, and I've come to have a significant portion of my net worth invested with some operators. 

Plenty of opportunity here in DFW.So far I've been working with a couple of local development firms (Realty Capital & Hunt Realty Investments) that have given me some guidance on the commercial side.

I have no idea how anyone makes money investing in real estate in the Hong Kong market - other than developers, that is.

Rather than hire as many sales people to do follow ups--set up automated text messages, emails, letters, or postcards to be sent to your best prospects.- Podio has really good integration with other services--like RightSignature for eSignature, Google Docs/Drive, Dropbox, Twilio for SMS, Lob for physical mail--either for marketing or other workflows like invoicing, and a ton of other services.  

To help our case, I am thinking about putting together a report of some type that would help for why this development should be accepted.