Seems Home Depot is more environmentally conscious on this matter than some of HD's competitors:http://www.ecocenter.org/healthy-stuff/reports/vin...

Wetting of expansive soils, such as clay, under the house. 

We're thinking the note would provide a healthy return and be due in 5 years or so (we should be able to refinance by then).

As for me, I target deals with 20-30% cash on cash ROI percentages... then I take a healthy margin for myself, and the real "profit" is a lot smaller at the end of the day.

These aholes came to our soil (embasies) prepared to burn, kill, and destroy.

Your health is not worth what you would save.

Seems like you could put together a set of metrics that you could use to give you the trajectory of a neighborhood and from that anticipate correctly what the "tipping point" for investment would be.Currently my strategy is to put in the work to find distressed homes in healthy neighborhoods that are a potential for value add, but I'd also like to look for things in up-and-coming neighborhoods.I was thinking about this for flipping because I don't want to get stuck holding a property that won't move, so I understand that many of these things might be better for a buy or hold strategy.

One of the great benefits to buying here in the Tampa/Clearwater/StPete area is you get world-class amenities/beaches, lots of market opportunities and good rent:price ratios, and a healthy outlook on future appreciation as well. 

The engineer will have a hard time analyzing your project without soil sampling how much more with only mere pictures and words.

The property is trashed but it has a very healthy spread.