He hired an architect and civil engineers and etc to come up with plans for the development.

Ironically, a lot of architects like to design green pavement sections and then the engineers make them put plastic underneath...

The domain name is mainly for ease of use for people to remember and virally translate to others and type in as well being short to fit easily on marketing mailers and other materials.EMD (exact match domains) use to be high ranking in the search engines.

Is there a recent engineering study that talks about reserves.

The lending is based on plans and specifications not what sits there today.If you are considering the hard and soft sides, soft is not underwriting or compensating factors in any type of loan, soft refers to money used for expenses or services required, appraisal work, engineering, utility expenses, surveying, attorney fees, brokerage expenses, etc.

Then prices drop as the only buyers are investors and tenants/LL's generally don't care about the property too much.As to the things to consider when purchasing a condo: I always ask % investors, condo units in arrears on fee's (hint about upcoming distress sales), check HUD online and see if the development is approved and when the approval is up for renewal, check the financials/reserves thoroughly - there is usually a fairly recent engineer report giving live-spans and replacement costs of bigger items, I also ask if they expect any special assessments coming down the pike.I think that about covers it.

Before becoming a agent I was a Project Engineer for a commercial general contractor.

Unfortunately, the City and Army Corp of Engineers had a disagreement over whether or not a gate should be put in a fence, it ended up pushing the project out another full year.

Then architectural, engineering, broker fees, attorney, and amount paid for the land to get a potential profit.Based on ones I have done I think the seller is not even in the same planet as what a developer would pay.

I feel he really wants to help everyone by sharing his trade secrets.Silver Brian Hoyt The kid's (almost) got a master's in engineering.