We fee like a conservative approach will let us go through the growing pains of better understanding real estate investing without the worry of being over leveraged to add to the stress while we are both still employed full time in our careers and do not plan on quitting our jobs to go fully into real estate. 

There is no 'per square foot' method that is accurate....At least until you have quite done a few.... 

I quit my job 2022, live off rental income and we house hack a large 3 level house with rents totally covering mortgage.She has excellent credit and six figure yearly income.

Perhaps the land attorney can use this lack of curb and gutter as incentive in negotiations, which the engineers were quite confident they would be successful with.

That took quite a while to do when I first wrote it, to gather all that info and do the research. 

Now some other investors may believe they can boost your revenue quite a bit but they don't want to pay for that projected boost. 

Quote from @Shawn Nofziger: I have quite a few options in my areas to bid on foreclosed properties. 

I am not quite sure what they are doing with my portion at this point.

I should have known better but was the first time and it's been quite the learning experience so far. 

Plaks who answers quite a bit was discussing it.