You don't want to stack 179 agreements as the law actually covers that in regards to if the Optionee and Optionor have engaged in previous lease option agreements.  

For me, I’ve seen some good deals but didn’t have the confidence or knowledge to move forward until now. 

Second step would be to engage a couple of civil engineering firms and get some quotes for the project and get their estimates on timeframe for approvals etc.You can also call some site work contractors that do subdivision development and get some ideas on pricing once you determine what you can do with the property.Time frames will vary.

After you lose a few houses because they went under contract before you could put an offer in, or when your offers are rejected a few times you’ll learn to make decisions faster and have more confidence in yourself.

I think the hard money loan would be the best route to take as I am confident the upgrades could easily bring the value up to around 150k.

You want something you can handle on your own or something you are really confident you can unload, as-is.

I look forward to engaging many of you in the very near future!

I feel pretty confident that that type of service counts as real estate brokering in almost every state.  

I'm quite confident many banks will be removing vacant land from their lending roles, "as we speak"!

This will boost your preliminary knowledge base exponentially, and thereafter your confidence in offering on properties.Once you have a bit more comfort with the straight forward items (or while you’re learning about them), get a property under contract with an inspection contingency of 14+ business days.