But then I was thinking to myself, the lot directly behind my current rental, in a fairly mature neighborhood, is empty. 

I am having trouble understanding how paying the realtor 100k in fees on the resale alone (not including what they get paid when they are used on the buy) is acceptable.

Looking forward to connecting with you boss!

Even without those challenges you had, it was still probably hard to find a buyer because of the use mix.  

I'm looking for somebody to correspond with.

As we have all seen, Californians are leaving in droves over the past couple of years, and fleeing to Florida, Texas and yep...Arizona.As long as we continue to stay under LAs housing market for affordability, we are going to continue to net those homeowners wanting an upgrade to a bigger house or lot. 

But I purchased land in cash and leveraged it to build a new construction stick built home.

Hello @Alev G.Welcome to the BP community!

She had that one under contract but wanted to make sure that w saw this one.

Used the proceeds to complete the work on a fixer upper I negotiated for $45k.