The whole block has 5 of these houses built by the same developer in 1989.

Yes the equity is higher esp on your first loans, but you need to develop that relationship with the lenders to grow anyway.

PM- I worked for the Intrawest Development for 5 years and help build the Village at Snowshoe, bought property in the first building in the Village, developed my own units there, and still own property there.

Dubai’s relative autonomy will come to an abrupt end.†The emirate’s push into luxury property developments and tourist attractions was diversification on “paper sand,†said Davidson, a professor of Middle Eastern affairs at Durham University in the U.K. ‘Nasty Downturn’ Real-estate prices may drop 20 percent or more, analysts at EFG-Hermes Holding SAE, the biggest publicly traded investment bank in Egypt, said in a report this week.

My long-term goal is to own a diverse portfolio that provides me the freedom to choose the type and level of activity, and to engage in a variety of investing and developing opportunities.

I invested in undeveloped land and I did smal land pre developments for owners builders in area of vacation homes in Southern CA mountains.

I'm involved in all facets of real estate, from residential, land and commercial brokerage, to real estate land development, new home construction, the occasional renovation and enjoy real estate investing of all sorts, primarily buy and hold large land tracts.

And as a web/software developer I'd love to build it.

If done right this helps people who do not currently ave the ability to buy to own a home... and when I fix up an EYE SORE home I help the neighbors and provide a good rental or owner financed home for another family.When I work with the "infill" development , we take unusable homes tear them down and rebuild brand new duplexes to rent to affordable housing needs (sec * and FEMA) and sell the Duplexes to investors that are like minded and want to better a neighborhood while they invest...I think I can some up Investing in real estate in " Instead of just making Money..

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