We've been fortunate for about 10 years here in Texas with a robust economy.

If you do the City has a long process including hiring an independent party (engineering) to verify the integrity of work done.

It just means they can't grow exponentially now since their expenses for marketing and engineering is too expensive to keep.

As a land development engineer myself, I am knowledgeable with regard to the conceptual and final design of the project, but know little about the financing and building construction side of the process.Another question is how to present the property to a developer.

When the zoning is in place you need an engineer to create a plat and get it approved by the town. 

You can do this in multiple different ways, Zillow or Redfin are all lead based search engines meaning you can use that to your advantage and tour homes that are on market.

Another one was a husband and wife who are both engineers and make almost $360,000/yr they put down 20% on $869,000. 

I live in North Jersey and work as a geotechnical engineer where I travel between Newark and NYC for work.

It is a business expense you'll need to provide same as electricity and water.I do get calls occasionally to confirm I have these even though it is clearly listed in my VRBO and Airbnb ads.You can filter these items in the search engine and if you don't have these then your property will not even show up in a customer's search for a property to rent.

But the way the rental search engines work now really puts me behind, especially when I have to build in the heat too on one 4U property.