You can choose to be hard, or choose to be soft.

The way the industry is structured from my experience the electrician often 'may' oversee the project, but typically you engage with a 'turnkey' solar type company to do all of the following:front end financial analysisget through the regulatory process and most utilities require filing what's called an 'interconnection agreement'bring in an engineer like me to draft plans, as requiredthen once the interconnection has been approved, they shop the install to an electricianoften in house resources from that solar company are used to actually mount panels and do most of the LV wiring, and they will leave the 120/240 etc wiring to the electricianGranted, the above process unfortunately has a lot of 'soft costs' built in that drive up the cost of these types of projects for a homeowner, but they still do pencil out in some cases.  

If I am going to do the work and spend the cash to turn the park around and stabilize it, shouldnt I benefit from raising the CAP to well above market?

Most of us are not forced to sell when the market is soft.

Built for $200 sf hard+soft costs with a house approximately 4,000 sf.

Some things I could correct and make better, others, if could only do so much with.As to the driveway, if you are suggesting that it be finished in a red to match the red tile roofs, I don't believe that would go over to well here.

RE investors who focus on seller financing know all to well how the public misunderstand.John Corey

I bought an REO in a very soft market.

have always had a soft spot for NL (and SE CT in general).

For slightly larger multifamily, we're seeing a little softness, but that's the only effect I've noticed so far.