I am under contract for a 72 unit property and we got a bad phase 2... the lead levels in the soil are above the threshold.

I saw today on the news a few apartment complexs with water up to the first floor windows which mean first floor flooded.. my experience in Katrina when I looked at a few apartment complexs there post Katrina that had flooded.. they needed to be completely vacated.. and bottom floor and some times top floor dry wall and every thing ripped out.. mold grows there like nobodys business its like living in a petri dish in that area of the country.  

You need a builder, permit tech, plan designer/architect, structural engineer, possibly a civil engineer for frontage improvements if required, a geotech for soils analysis and maybe others depending on your area.

dry rot, financing type?

Are they saving us money in the long run or bleeding us dry?

The house doesn't get used, debris in the low spot (plumbers sometimes call these "bellies") dries out, catches more debris and turns into a clog and causes the noted backup.

@Steve Osowicz Echo'g @Kay Kay Singh comment, depending on the demographics you can put in a laundromat (not a full-size one) and offer ancillary services like dry cleaning and ironing.

It ranges from free standing stores large and small (for supermarkets to dry cleaners), small strips with several stores, small to large office buildings, mixed use, like a property with stores downstairs and apartments upstairs.If your just talking stores, I looked at a number of single empty ones and you'll have to figure out why they're empty.

I was able to scrape off the soil down to the concrete and found out that there indeed is concrete below the studs; this is great news as now concrete pouring is not needed anymore.

Rent out the soil: You can have organic growers locally who would like the extra land to grow their crops on your soil to make some more extra income and maybe some tasty food as well. hmmmmm spinach (maybe Popeye said this once)13.)