PRELIM LAND PLANNING- do a preliminary layout, please remember stream buffers, specimen trees, ANY jurisdictional waters (its a good idea to have you county water systems guy come walk your property with you to verify any jurisdictional water systems and what the required state and county buffers are for those systems).

Anyway, as far as camera systems, I would think a simple Blink system and wifi would work for what you want to do, with something like the Schlage encode for a locking system.

Top tier agents are making out substantially better in the new system.

One time (the $100k) time, we found that the sewer line from a 32 unit apartment building actually just dumped into the creek and was never hooked up to the city sewer system which ended a few blocks away.  

Mainly because home inspectors already have tools and systems for quickly generating thorough inspection reports to help you negotiate credits, concessions, and/or price reductions. 

Ugh, Madhuri, as someone who is heavily invested in Detroit and helps a LOT of out-of-state investors get started there, this makes me sick.I talk to about a dozen folks per week looking to invest in Detroit and I've heard my fair share of Flip Systems folks.

Improve building heating/cooling and electrical systems.

Capex is usually lower, around 2-5%, since major replacements like roofs or HVAC systems are far off.

That's good, at least you understand the system.

With most hard money lenders - you will need funds to start the renovations - since they work on a draw system.