I was interested in parceling out residential lots around the lake and building various style log cabins. 

Purchase price: $85,000 Cash invested: $100,000 This victorian style home located in a prime area of Kansas City needed complete remodeling.

A 10,000 sf house is typically going to cost less per square foot than a 1000 sf house, just because there is a lot more empty space, which is cheaper to build than space that contains things like kitchens and bathrooms.What style of house?  

Most of my properties are 3/2 ranch style homes.

I have a Filson Tin Cloth jacket.

You might want to look into CPRs (island-style form of subdivision with easements).

Trying to evaluate property and take pictures inside wasn't ideal especially with staked storage boxes, clothes everywhere and dog in the house. 

Pulling comps for STRs in the same vicinity has proven somewhat difficult as there are only a handful and they are either lake front or tiny home style vacation rentals.

They also recommended Mereno which I use in my kitchens.Sometimes I choose a custom color for the bathroom because I get bored; it's tough to stick with one set color for a bathroom, IMO, unless all your properties have the same style of bathroom. 

Clean, tidy, there were a couple new cabinets up, he'd done a lot of painting with the walls and work on the floors, he'd broken up the breaker panel into more evenly divided circuits, replaced old cloth wiring with romex, sized one size over code and took the panel from a bird nest of wires to orderly and labeled, he had stripped and refinished some of the older woodwork in the house and replaced a lot of the old cast iron drains in the basement with PVC.