I was able to gain valuable experience walking these properties and working with the construction team to estimate cost of rehab and see the entire process through, from rehab to actually packaging the property for sale to investors.

Mind you, me and most of my friends are in the construction industry and a lot of our answers were similar to,"Spend a couple hundred in some tools, buy a cheap (~$500) car/truck and find the nearest job site."

You should have it inspected (home inspector not city/county) to make sure it was done to code.

My first was a condo acquisition and then a new construction build, but of which had tenants.

I do have some fairly solid construction/remodeling experience which I hope will help me get started in the business and save me some expense on rehab deals.

Just adding thickness won't block the entire listening frequency spectrum, surface textures can help too, look to studio construction, it should explain the frequency ranges and standards as well as textures in design.....find an audio engineer.Why not ask the neighbor not to put the dog along that wall.

We are under a joint venture agreement with a construction company that will build homes on these lots.

I am a home inspector, and will soon have an infrared camera to help me get to about 95% sure I know what a house will hold for me in the future.

But we had some of the issues you noted, small things are big in the eye of an inspector, we had one item I missed entirely, posts for the deck on the house were not bad, but were discolored and getting damaged.

Though my son, as a three year old, is fascinated by real estate (walking properties, watching construction, etc.), the bloom may be well off by the time he's an adult.