They don't build the roads, run the utilities, do the subdivision permitting, handle the stormwater design, environmental issues, zoning, grading, or anything else that goes into building a residential subdvision.There is a huge amount of expense involved with getting a site "pad ready" for a builders like these and unfortunately there are no "rules of thumb" that are going to let you quickly estimate what this is going to cost.You have a lot of due diligence to do my friend before you go down this road.For starters,Is the land even zoned to build these single family homes on it?

They have apparently correct decision in all aspects of their design, price point, and the market sector to target.

It's designed to hold in smells.

I do computer (storage, really) hardware and software design.

These designs are easy to rehab and maintain.Here's one piece of free advice.

(same goes for bedroom)Then again, if your design is poor or the home does not have a layout condusive to adding a bed/bath, you could hurt your price opinion, so their must be a plan.

Especially when they could design a modest ETF portfolio that would provide them with a good chance of earning more than 3%.So is the goal to buy a property for cheap using hard money, rehab it, refinance the home at a higher valuation, pay off the hard money loan and then pocket the rehab cost plus any gain?

They haave 90 days to sell them and then they go to their designated realtor.

I am going to have to have it planned out and designed out conceptialy before i can sell it to the next set of people for the next phase.

I'm actually in Vancouver at the moment, I've also written an article designed for Foreigners looking to buy in the U.S. you may want to have a look at: http://acaciacoinc.com/blog/2009/04/19/can-a-foreigner-buy-a-home-in-the-us/, I'm a licensed Real Estate/Mortgage Broker in the State of California and if you would like I'd be more than happy to assist you.