Where this overlaps with your question is that I've found that some independent special needs people have a work or life coach to help them keep on track with day to day things like paying rent and job performance.

It may hold true for other areas of life, and maybe even other areas of investing, but I don't see any application to ground up construction.

Born and raised in Agriculture, will be focused on that industry throughout my life.

I live with MS and financial freedom is not a desire but a necessity in my life for this reason.

I personally went through a period when I had about 6 or 7 vacant properties, mostly because I was busy doing other, more profitable things (and another period when I was dealing with health issues).Just because you come across a vacant property, you don't know why it's vacant.

I posed two questions awhile ago I asked is there life after modification for investors, I had one faithful BP mod respond, second I asked this question 7 years ago of Henry Savage a columnist with the Washington Times Home Guide.

You may wanna consider starting a "Member Blog" about your remodeling process - http://www.biggerpockets.com/blogs - as I think case studies and real life stories are so great for learning from.

Some good free books on Amazon are "Real-Estate made easy" by Brian Haskins "The Ultimate Real Estate Investing Blueprint" by Sean Terry "No Bs Real-Estate Investing" By Preston Ely and "Flipping Houses Exposed: 34 Weeks In The Life Of A Successful House Flipper" by Danny Johnson.

So the neighbor contact the Board of Health, once that happened, the conservation committee contacted us and proceeded to tell us that our property was on wetlands.

I've run into similar situations, less concerned about the wear and tear, as to whether the health department has a limit.