I also added soil near foundation and graded it away from the house.

With a Mid-grade Crew (4), the expenses to own this yacht would be around $770,000 per year.

We started moving dirt yesterday the lots are being cleared and graded.

@Richard C. point taken...though your contract law comparison using Aunt June's musty house and narcotics is a bit of a reach, IMO.I have worked with 4 agents: 1) a woman who persuaded me and my wife to overpay for a house (we were impatient and naive). grade: D- 2) a kind old woman who took a huge hit in commission to help us pay closing costs on the same house when we sold it 4 years later.

I have always remembered this girl I went to school with she and her parents lived in some apartments close to my grade school.  

Additionally, when you install the machines, use the braided steel supply lines and put a coupling on the washer drain hose so it fastens to your stand-pipe.Our experience with mid-grade, basic HE machines is that they either fail immediately (manufacturing defect) when they are under warranty or well beyond 5-years (after they have been written off) at which point, if the repair is anything but minor, we might well opt to replace them.

Many zoning laws allow for down grading so that you can build a single family house on multifamily land although you would generally not want to.

I had a dude try to tell me it was going to cost $7k to do some clearing and grading on a current rehab, it will cost me under $1k.

@Michael WhiteNot understanding why someone would get so many homes under contract then only close a small percentage unless they were contracts on properties that were never investment grade to begin with.

What I have is as follows:  A 10,400 sq/ft finished above grade SF home built in 1912.