If the old one is usable, you might save a few grand.  

It would be a really sweet deal for him, and there is a grand already there in an account he would receive plus there is $30,000 in cash buried on my fathers property, which i believe my brother has already exhumed. so it should be a snap, less than attorney fees if we battle it out.

Don,you go through the tax assessors office they come out with a list just an address and you have no idea if there is a lean on it you have to take that list and do the research find out the lean if any drive by the prop most of them boarded up cant even look inside I buy them for the tax before the auction where the bank goggles them up, or if you know the house when you see the list tell the gal in the office can i give you the tax for this one looks like 4 grand and pay for it right then and there BEFORE it goes to the judges court for auction. 

(If my grand project wouldnt fly - I'd like to pursue the possibility of building a smaller multi family project on one of the empty lots -- a 6-8 unit building should fit along with parking and maybe space for a basketball court or sand volleyball court or the like)Here's my idea -- there has only been private rehab of the couple old apt buildings near the school and some of the run down houses -- however nothing built "new" as far as I can tell in decades.  

I went through Farmer's but the actual coverage is through Foremost out of Grand Rapids, Michigan.edit to add: I was honest and upfront with the agent about the property and what I was doing with it.

As you can see, I hale from the great city of Grand Rapids, MI.

Appreciate the feedback.Regarding the Casa Grande commercial buildings we are just way too far off.

I have no illusions it is a grand slam, but I think it is something I can cut my teeth on and I am excited to move forward.

I would add Lake Merritt to your "Oakland Hills" where people with good credit and high income wish to live, along with Grand Lake, Piedmont, and for some now...

Those barely use any water and are not considered energy hogs anyway on the grand scale of things in the unit.