There is no incentive for a seller to do anything other than the bare minimum necessary to satisfy the terms of the agreement.

Thanks everyone  I wouldn't follow the advice on utilities and bringing them in or ever do suburban development for builders. it is too small of a market and niche. there are only 7 builders who build more than 50 houses a year in columbus and only 3 have development arms and all of them do their own development. we do land entitlement for multifamily three story walk ups only, barely any Build to rent or BTR either because it's such a small part of the market.

If you look towards motivation, you have access to ALL THE DEALS while if you focus on vacant, you barely have access to ANY deals.

I would imagine they would look at it and ask why would anyone rent a tiny piece of land that barely has space for a home. 

Its all well and good when things are going well and you will barely notice but when things are going poorly you will be able to think about nothing else! 

You're barely over half that.

As it stands, your house essentially barely kept pace with inflation probably close to a negative real return when you factor that in.  

All these expenses are being incurred prior to the unit being placed back in service, in fact it is down to bare studs right now. 

Not to mention when I cash out, the interest rate isn't the same as a few years back where it has almost doubled to where I barely breakeven on these newly attained properties.It seems to be that I need a higher number of units to make it more likely to get the numbers I'd like to see in terms of my goal of ~$5,000/month net cash flow.

From my understanding if you do have their SSN there are extra safeguards you need to keep them safe but I barely looked into it.