Survey post Super Bowl. 

if you feel you are more inclined and confident in sweat equities, go to REIA MEET UPS and offer barter for your sweat equity skills...Or if your inclined to keep a solo low profile..Find some cheap vacant residential acreage that may be dividable and call a survey company and divide it and sell it for a mark up or owner financed with enough down to cover your costs and maybe keep a chunk for your self...

I have the topographic survey done and Ideally I would like to build two houses with the hope of selling one to pay for the construction .

;3) Find something of value to offer investors (rent surveys, list of recent solds, marketing packages for recent solds resembling your prospects' own properties, etc)And how much you can sell depends on:1) the number of homes (assuming you're doing SFR) there are in your area (volume);2) how many homes turn in a give year (velocity);3) how much closed income on average is possible given (2) above;4) how much income you expect in a given year;5) how many contacts you need to make per sale to capture the income projected in (4) above.KW training can help you with the math re 3,4,5, or you can calculate it yourself through your own research.Best of luck!

So last week I attended a real estate forecast put on by one of the local real estate investment groups.I was a little apprehensive going to the event because I knew I was a newbie and so did everyone else in the room when they saw the glazed over look I had in my eyes as I surveyed the crowd in hopes of finding a welcoming place to sit.

One option is do your survey, site plans and pre-submitted all conference then check to see where the market is at.

Of course you are competing with a bunch of investors if you arrive at the party late. c) How quickly can you get to that property and do your analysis \site survey?

The Survey, taken by California's commercial real estate industry leaders in December 2015, indicates continued optimism with only a smattering of caution with respect to the continuation of the current run.

@Clifton - Nice reminder that it's important to take a step back and survey the entire forest.  

I had to add a couple amendments on who paid the taxes for 2015 and an amendment for no survey.