You'll also need funds to pay your holding costs, a 245k loan at 8.5% interest only is $1,633/m plus taxes, insurance, utilities, landscaping...etc, so somewhere around 2k/m holding costs.  

Attached below is the Landscaping Tree and shrub plan.

I would have loved to do some more landscaping, maybe build a carport, etc. 

I would also speak to the developer/builder and ask how he/she intends to landscape/mark the trail. 

@Ellie Nasir Originally I didn't do much work myself but by starting with the easy-ish stuff (painting, landscaping, labour) and challenging myself with progressively harder things, I learned a lot and saved a lot of money.

In more developed areas tighter parks could be B if they are landscaped well and have car ports or paved drives.

Well, that fits the Bay Area investment landscape.

Basically He said In His A class rentals he pays a professional landscaper to mow trim and hedge .. in his b class properties he requires the tenant to mow and trim his own grass .. in his D class section 8 rentals he pours ground clear chemicals on the grass and then just dumps gravel over the yard lol 

All a cost segregation study will do for you is determine the remaining value of 5-year property (furniture and appliances) and 15-year property (sidewalks, driveways, landscaping, etc.), which is subtracted from your depreciation basis for the dwelling structure. 

I was in a meeting on a $10 mil interior commercial remodel when the Landscape Architect asked for the site plans and analysis, he just had to have it.