If you play cashflow 101 and 202 and understand the concepts then you should be looking to get started actually investing.

Since it might be a new concept to some, you might add that when I obtain a contract I disclose to the property owner that I may assign my contract to a buyer I know or another party I work with to get the property sold as agreed

Even at that, Brian has a working concept, certainly, just needs some conventional wisdom added to make is work easier and not tip toeing through a mine field.

They will need to work with the concept of economies to scale.

That said, certainly the document should touch on key concepts like investment, investment term and return expectations.

That developer is going to have his Civil Engineer look at it, and they will want to develop their own concept plan.

It's a purely purely financial concept applied to real estate.Example:You put up 5000$ to buy a 30 000$ property.

The issue to this concept, IMO, is that you are saying the business plan, which includes knowing the market and having a realistic plan, is better than knowing the numbers for the deal.

The concept of payment or performance is really simply.

I think you'll find being in the dealership business and having flipped a few cars is actually pretty good grounding for real estate concepts such as making money when you buy (right), flipping wholesale and retail deals and keeping on top of the market.