If you think there's long term oppportunity there and want to keep some of the project, you can build out,and lease out to national tenants, etc.You'd want a well planned layout with the major big box portion of the development (Costco, Walmart, etc.), Hotels/motels, then smaller national commercial retail (Walgreens, furniture stores) Food - Pizza, fast food, full service restaurants - Smaller businesses like hair salons, insurance companies, etc.I'd think a major thing would be entertainment type venues, (movie theaters, Dave & Busters, bowling, fun parks, or ?

Compare the plans with the actual layout and you know what improvement is leg

I'll be honest (and I've told HU this) that their new layout has put more of a burden on the investor on the front end.  

@Kyle Bentz I have worked with both of these contractors and find them to be pretty good.http://www.sierraconstruction.com/http://www.azzarellibuilders.com/if you need an architect for lay out or land use, Joe Belluccia is pretty good.http://www.jvbarch.com/index.htm

We bought it as is and it appraised for $12000 more than we paid and we are currently changing the layout of the main living spaces and doing a full gut and reno on the kitchen, losing all wall paneling.

The kitchen layout is wrong, and not open and airey like high end houses these days.

Some rehab costs I understand you can estimate from pictures but what about seeing the layout of a home to determine if you're going to need to knock down a wall and say rearrange a space?

The market will not allow the price to be any higher due to these factors such as area, layout, condition etc.  

Same layout sold sept 2017 for 665K.

Jon W. it's definitely going to be hard, but it never hurts to talk to the bank directly "face-to-face" if a layout of what the income will be producing from the other property the bank might be okay with it.