About skill, well, I have Accounting background, cad drafting, land surveying, research for deed etc from working at Land Surveying company.

I hear a lot of people say that they don't get surveys.  

I want to get a mortgage on a large acreage, have it surveyed into 5 acre lots and sell them off with owner financing.

(You could be locked out......timing is very important).Some of the items in the file folder include;A skinny contract of sale...... this is a one page written in easy to understand language with only one out clause.A Hybrid contract of sale... a way to close more transactions by joint ventureA commercial contract of sale, 3 pages with special buyer requirements related to environmental conditions, existing suppliers, surveys, buried oil tanks and other conditions that must be known to make a profitable and safe transactionAn option agreementAn informational pocket pack with 52 options to financing and control a building without conventional financingBlank checks, pens, carbon paper, A list of referencesDisclosures for lead paint and other state or federal requirementsCell phone with camera to take pictures of the nice things and negative aspects of the property and to take a picture of the contract to email confirmation to seller and to your title company or lenderA gift, something for the seller to remember you by, I give Indian Head Nickels away, pens, note pads.Blank addendum forms  - these are used to attach to your purchase agreements (you don't want a lot of chicken scratching on your contracts; use them to write some of the following;1.

As a buy & hold property, I'm curious to see what various investors would pay for a 4-plex with the following monthly income and expenses:

Income $2750 (total from 4 units)

Property taxes $390
Actual utilities &...

our state is a little different, too, and the local assessor is actually not privy to sales data, non disclosure state, and for some reason has no access to multiple listing, so they rely on surveys and some programs, so they tend to be under the market a bit...they also work off a January date,,so they don't reflect changes in the year like an appraisal, which may be part of the gap...and some areas may just not have many sales, be it commercial, raw land in an area, etc... 

Account ClosedThe Annual Census, known as the American Community Survey, is a good resource as well. 

I had a question about the 2012 survey BiggerPockets ran in collaboration with Memphis invest.Specifically, in the following question, the percentage age up to more than 100% (129% to be exact) - does anyone know why that's the case?  

You may still have to go to the Planning Board to get an approved site plan for the house though and would need to hire a surveyor and engineer to survey the lot and prepare a boundary plan and proposed site plan for the property.

I'm thinking about surveying my tenants and wondering if anyone has done this?