Backfill to 18-24 inches below ground level with sand or pea gravel. 

Then 2-3 inches of slope for the next 2 feet. 

Currently on city water with 3 inch galvanized lines running through the park hooked into 8 in galvanized lines from the city.

Most of the successful investors I know subscribe to the "inch wide, mile deep" theory.

And yeah, I'm as tech as they come and I love going to Houston once a quarter and taking a 2 foot tall stack of $$ out of our VTM (the machine that people put cash in to loan $ onto their cards that are used by the W/Ds)

It has been done, but it is one of the more annoying ways to market because it is about an inch away from just littering on someone's yard. 

We have a 100 y/o single family buy&hold in Missouri and would like to turn the attic into usable space. ideally we could keep the rafters exposed in keeping with the character of the home, so the standard 6 inch fiberglass would not work. 

We have a 100 y/o single family buy&hold in Missouri and would like to turn the attic into usable space. ideally we could keep the rafters exposed in keeping with the character of the home, so the standard 6 inch fiberglass would not work.Is there a DIY compact type of insulation that would work? 

In a forest full of grown 100 meter high trees, the only one fighting and competing for sunshine are the little seedlings 3 inches tall.

For example, I have a duplex with bowed/uneven floors when i first bought it, reminded me of alice in wonderland (because of the crazy appearance, tons of bunnies that burrowed there, tall hedges, and lots of greenery) so i call it wonderland.