I’m currently doing a 719sqft one in LA & just on soft costs for that was $13,500. 

Those projects can be difficult to finance, be lengthy, and have lots of soft costs.So the question remains what is the best way to get started? 

I think I spent around $3k in 1999 clearing and rough grading (but not excavating) when I built my house and there wasn't any real timber to cut down, just a decent amount of brush and stump hauling, and certainly nothing to grind.

Pine is a fairly soft wood and with this being a rental I would be worried about durability.

I sold fuller brush door to door at your age.. and that was fun.keep at it.. pretty awesome really your on this site like I said.. you will be fine.

The easiest way would be to request a line increase from your current credit issuers (if they do it with a soft-credit pull even better). hope this helps! 

I would definitely brush up on the laws in St Louis because this is from a few years back.

Definition: This includes all hard and soft costs.

It's relatively minor, but if they apply to more than one place, it can add up and is obviously a bit unfair to them.When they "run it on themselves" through something like Zillow, it is a soft inquiry and has no impact on their score.But of course, be sure to find a platform that gives you the info you need and is convenient to use.

On the contract under the legal description it mentions lots D & E, but no mention of B.According to the zoning ordinances I was reading it states under the chapter concerning nonconforming lots, structures and uses that…“Two or more contiguous parcels of property owned by the same person shall be considered as being one parcel if one or more are nonconforming in size and the resulting parcel does not contain two principal buildings.”This leads me to believe that the property owner can NOT sell ONLY lots D & E, basically because this would then “create” a new nonconforming lot.I called our realtor and pointed this out and she more or less brushed it off saying it is probably only referring to a single lot for tax purposes.