Can any builders/investors provide their thoughts on:market generally for spec builds and/or small scale subdivisions price per sq ft of buildprice per sq ft landgood local banks for construction loans any good GCs to recommendOf course if anyone has other answers, tips, stories, etc... to provide those are certainly welcome.

I mostly have construction experience but I do have some real estate background.  

Plus, unless you get a construction loan (which might have a higher down payment requirement), you will also need to fund the costs of the repairs.In addition, I don't know how handy you and your H are, but those kinds of skills would be really helpful.Flipping can be tough. 

Last week I had a new construction and the buyer went through quicken.. these guys were horrid took an extra 8 days to close because of their rules.. if they used a local lender they would have been in the home a week earlier.. and they were camped in a hotel.. and whinning like crazy that we the builder were at fault when it was their lender LOL.Account Closed  I think you taking the contingencies comment a little out of context.

I am 59 years old and have quite a bit of construction experience and some real estate background.  

I guess they don't just look at the cash flow only, they want a significant personal guarantee and 100k wasn't enough.They do a lot of construction loans for commercial.

Don't rush to a take any deals and make sure you rehab or construction costs are as low as possible.

The really interesting thing to me is in my experience as a building inspector for two decades and a drywall installer and all around construction type for many years prior to that I never encountered the subject....  

You may be very right that the building was a boarding house of some sort, as 75 years ago, lots of construction was going on in the St.

I don't mind light rehab work, but nothing too serious as I don't have a great amount of time nor extensive construction experience to put into projects.