Dark red is $30K or less, bright green is $150K or more, and the gradients in between represent median incomes between $30K and $150K.The arrows represent median income growth over the last five years.

@Jay Hinrichs - Yes, I am talking about lots with gradient big enough to make a basement with the natural slope.

The lot in Hollywood Hills is the largest at 30K sf with 3 lots so may be able to get 3 houses on that, depending on the gradient.

I bought a house a few months back that I ASSumed was on city sewer because of the neighborhood, but ended up being on septic because there were 4 homes in a row that were too high for the sewer gradient.

After speaking to a buddy of mine who owns a site prep company, I am looking at about 200k in improvements to get the land in proper gradient for the storage (outside) usable.

It's okay to have a gradient in your standards that allows for "higher risk" = "higher security deposit" if you wish.

Wholesaling can easily trend hard towards flat-out-deceptive or it can be done with the utmost honor and honesty.I think what happens if we aren't honest about that gradient is we can give blanket justification to the act of wholesaling and then use that to justify the ends, regardless of the means.  

I'm planning on positioning this to her by saying "This deal can be a gradient scale where you retain more control and also more liability, or we receive more control, and take on more liability, where on this scale would you be most comfortable?"

Presumably, competing mills are already starting up to capitalize on this price gradient and the resulting glut of unmilled timber, and eventually lumber will come back down in price.

That gives me some good perspective and things to consider as I'm figuring things out, especially with money being a gradient.