You can also apply at your local real estate agency to get your foot in the door and learn the day to day operations.

Looking to see if there are any local investors who can give me a rough cost per square foot to expect building new construction.

The ticket price is high, yes, but with creative strategies like househacking and live-in flipping, even a newbie can their foot in the door of CA investing.Those are my two cents.And everything you need to know about out-of-state investing you'll find in David Greene's excellent book Long Distance Real Estate Investing.Good luck!

- This is more than likely zoned "residential" you will find the property specification in the county website https://polkpa.org, this is where they specify the number of bedrooms and bathrooms, if the property is showing as a 3bd/2ba, it would be very uncommon for someone to remove a bathroom, but I would check the property to see if there was evidence of a previous bathroom, however there is value in having a 3bd/2ba vs a 3bd/1ba, this holds true for selling or renting.931 sqft - I like these smaller homes, as there is potential to make them bigger, you should check to see if there are any roof covered areas such as a porch, where you can expand the square footage of the home, any time you are pricing a home you base the value of the property on the selling price of similar properties, and you determine the price per square foot, you can then apply that to your property, so if you add square footage to a property you are rehabbing, you can add value by expanding the size.Year built: 1961 - Be sure to have it inspected, you should always inspect a house you are going to buy, especially if you are just starting out, having a professional asses the property can be priceless.

I'm not surprised they wouldn't want to foot the bill but we never felt it wise to pay for units that could easily surpass our existing lease also.

Without a robust emergency rental assistance program, this moratorium will ultimately harm the very people it aims to help as it will be impossible for housing providers to meet their financial obligations and continue to provide shelter to their residents.Cheers, Yuriy 

I excavated and set grades for footings and prefab walkout basement.

"Be the general" is good advice, but the general has to pay (or get someone else to pay) his foot soldiers. 

My family had rented a 3000 square foot home from 2016-2020 with two large mastiffs.

The plan is to get a pre qualified buyer using the USDA loan which will pay 100% of the cost for the buyer but the developer would need to use there resources to foot the build after finding a buyer.