As an advisor told me, “Fall in love with the numbers; not the architecture, neighborhood, or the lady next door who reminds you of your grandmother.”

I'm not seeing any high end finishes in these.That’s what I am seeing in most areas all in including drawings, Enginering, surveys, permits, inspections, tap fees, utilities, site work, temp power and temo toilet, trash and sweep outs, Fiber cement siding like hardy plank, architectural shingles or better, hardwood, ceramic tile, granite countertops, upgraded appliances and cabinets, upgraded light fixtures plumbing fixtures.

I've considered majoring in hotel management, hospitality, interior design, architecture, sales, HR, finance, management, financial planning... but I was told my entire life that I would only be successful if I went to college and got a degree in ONE of those subjects.

There’s so much old architecture here and so much potential.  

As you can see in the architectural drawing below, we’re turning the home into a four bedroom property.The current plan is to create a large master bedroom that makes up the entire right side of the second floor.

My ever-present entrepreneurial spirit had always been accompanied by a love of real estate, architecture and design, so it was inevitable that someday I would begin developing on my own.

And our interest is in merely trying to quantify and qualify the home for you.If you have the home inspection in hand it's a spec sheet that you can shop around and get bids on, use to intimidate  Negotiate with the seller, offer to rehabbers (as a wholesaler) all without exposing you to any more liability, or stress, or awkward situations outside of the normal real estate purchasing process.And finally to address your last point, I know a couple Home Inspectors, and they do their own flips, also most come from a construction/architecture background so to say they don't know as much as a contractor is silly.  

On joint venture agreements, if one person is putting up funds and the other is doing everything else from finding land, architectural design, construction, marketing, etc.

Our gut instinct is to put the tenant relocation upon the seller as part of a purchase and sale agreement in a manner that is allowed under both Federal and local regulations and incorporate that time period into our development activities--i.e. budget and development planning and preliminary approval of financing by our portfolio lender--we would probably hold off on architectural and permit work until seller and tenant have come to an agreement for tenants re-location and hopefully close on the property after the tenant has actually vacated the unit.

When I speak of prefab, I am not referring to conventional "trailer" homes, but rather the generally more architecturally interesting and (usually) quite configurable designs that are assembled on-site.