The first thing you migh need to do is walk your existing property and identify every single existing room with exact or near exact measurements noting in particular walls as some can exist as load bearing walls, important structural members for the exisiting structure, Make a scaled down drawing of the exisiting .Use for example 1/4 inch equals to 1 foot.

This puts numbers behind the gut feeling we've been having about Colorado Springs for awhile -- that it's on an upward trajectory.My gut has been led by the businesses I see coming into the downtown, the increase in foot traffic down there, the boxy modern-looking apartment complexes going up that we've seen in Denver for years now.

My business address is my home address, so the city has documents I'm supposed to fill out, but I'm not sure it pertains to my business as I will not have foot traffic, ets.  

Try that in a c or d class neighborhood too long and you’d find you own a burned out crack house with two foot of water in the basement

Insurance premiums are not linear with home values.

Try to look at it this way with an example we can all relate to...As a patron I go to a local Applebee's and don't have a great experience....the wait is long, the service is slow, the foot is cold, the drinks are watered down.

I know your partner is a builder-but still-you are building for 70 dollars a foot? 

Where I don't know yet but it wont be here where average home is $400 a square foot .

I'm a little confused now with everything that I've read and heard...for example i was told to get my "foot in the door" with real estate by doing wholesales but then i read a disscusion and people were saying that they basically ignore wholesalers. so my question is what is really the best way to get into real estate when i dont have my license yet

Is it gutted to the four foot or 8 foot level?