You have to have a permit, and there are specifications for what the driveway, drainage, and curbs must look like.At our family house in MO, we again has a similar situation.

It's the stuff inside of the store where the profit is and the gas is a loss leader.In addition to what was mentioned above the lottery sales boost the bottom line also.

I'll have to take out a private money loan to finish it, and would like to get it done sooner rather than later to reduce the mortgage payment and boost the value of the home when I refinance.  

Well, there were none at the time that worked or made sense and very few options that fit into my long-term goals with my family so I pivoted and found a great luxury house-hack (pool house w/guest house) and to make the numbers work I got creative and began mid-term and then short-term renting it to boost the revenue. 

You can for sure add that in there and boost your property income. 

Wholesaling is a tough grind, there will always be deals and I imagine more flippers will be trying their hands at wholesaling should they be stuck holding deals they can't sell and they want to boost their income.

(My wife is REP, and I am W2).Plus, I'll have two residential multi family properties that cashflow a little bit - and then I can refinance in the near future to boost that cashflow number up. 

This saves time and boosts efficiency.Cities with metro populations of over one million are usually less dependent on a single market sector or major employer compared to those with smaller populations.

The assumption of your plan based on your notes is that: you're planning on subdividing the lots, creating a development agreement with the AHJ for the land, CC&Rs, any necessary utility/landscape/road/streetlight district annexations, building out the master development infrastructure (water, sewer, power, telecom, roads, curbs/gutters, sidewalks, landscape/stormwater detention, streetlights, fire hydrants, driveways, traffic signals, etc.) and then developing each individual lot.

Over 145 million square feet of space has been demolished over the past five years, the vast majority of which is attached to or within underperforming malls.While moderating from the multi-decade high pace seen near the end of 2022, retail asking rents continue to rise at a healthy clip thanks to minimal availability and the significant boost in retail sales coming out of the pandemic.