Neighborhoods around new sports stadiums, city parks, and "town center" type developments become desirable very quickly.

During development our contractor put a lot of dirt to level the lot.

Kudo's to you for listening to warnings about what could happen if it all went bad, and then taking the steps to be sure you and more importantly your grandma, are safe.

I started off buying rentals, and then moved to other strategies like land development, spec building, note buying, wholesaling and rehabbing.I currenlty do rehab flips which is the large majority of my income.

I mostly purchase REO properties to flip, and a large majority of them come from contacts I have developed so I get them before the competition knows about them, that is my game.

Just to be on the safe side I would absolutely file a judgement for posession.

Once you reach a certain point, you realize you can't do everything yourself so bring on a team or develop a system to put things on autopilot for you.

Job Security - no one is safe. 2.

These are rather extremes.Eventually blocks like these will be torn down by the City's decree so that a private developer can build something of value.

And using the safe and guarranteed words, big no-nos.