Spend some time downtown and check out Kendall Yards, but also explore the surrounding area to see just how quickly the revitalization drops off.

I was going to hire a engineering firm to do all study and paper work for subdividing the parcel, and hire a site work company for all infrastructure.

William Parks (1800 - 1870) was a local merchant, ship owner, co-owner of the local gas-light utility, and founder of two textile mills which operated from the the 1860s through to ~1974 (though the family lost control of the mills in the early 1900s).The house - exteriorThe 1/2 - 3/4 acre garden surrounding the house is overgrown, but there are some amazing old plants hidden amongst the chaos - I found a rhododendron with a 30' spread, whose trunk was 8" in diameter - quite a specimen this far north.  

I've lived in Northern Virginia my whole adult life, so I'm used to a local economy that's heavily propped up by government jobs and infrastructure...

Jersey City is very hot these days, as is Newark and pretty much all of those surrounding areas.

I am also opened to investing in other areas such as plainfield, elizabeth, belleville, and other surrounding areas.

The market in San Jose and surrounding areas is so hot that there's no point in trying methods like that.

I'm looking to start networking asap. ( full time job and 2 kids kind of limits me on that time) If you're in Knoxville or near by surrounding cities and investing then I hope to meet you soon and possibly work with/for you soon. 

Revenue Ruling 55-540, 4.01 states, in relevant part, “Whether an agreement, which in form is a lease, is in substance a conditional sales contract depends upon the intent of the parties as evidenced by the provisions of the agreement, read in the light of the facts and circumstances existing at the time the agreement was executed.”To determine whether an arrangement is a lease-option or a sale, the IRS examines all of the facts and circumstances surrounding the transaction.

After the first successful meetup, we are going to plan another meetup for investors in the Greenville, Mauldin, Simpsonville, Spartanburg, and surrounding areas.