Because if you read further in the actual label of the herbicide most plants are short enough to still get a ground rig over them and it is significantly cheaper.  

I see these blackout dates as a sort of middle ground.

There is an opportunity to build 20 townhomes that will feed into the most desirable school district in the vicinity of the base.The first phase includes purchase of the land, development and re-platting, and the building of 5 units.

This is the best strategy for new investors as it will help you gain acquisition, project and property management experience.Build your team - Realtor, lender, attorney, home inspector, etc. and hit the ground running.

I give my opinion as a construction lender, many new investors come to me with deals where they can't get off the ground because of the soft costs and lack of capital & experience to start the project even if they own the land. 

The ground has held its own.

He wants to phase out and get into property management.

It is meant to help connect local investors and offer boots on the ground to long distance investors.

Now I’m not saying Detroit doesn’t have its own separate set of pitfalls as do many cities and some can even be devastating to a novice or even an experienced investor but with a large and awesome boots on the ground team or army the city becomes your oyster.

He is our boots on the ground to help with the neighborhoods and rehabs.