Depending on how upscale your finishes really were, you could have that built in this market for 300 to 325 per square foot fairly easily right now.

Ten years ago, there was almost zero code enforcement so you have a bunch of nonsense that you may not catch with pre-existing stuff and you may get hit with some monster issues down the road. 

That's a very fair proposal in my opinion and I would definitely have your contractor do it as opposed to someone else's

If you get past that, it is a fairly easy process.

they probably have a bunch of 3% nonconforming loans on their balance sheet so 5.5% is not bad, totally reliable payments, plus in a legal battle they'd likely find the power of attorney didn't extend to the ridiculous term and that there was no breach of any enforceable agreement.   

You've probably heard of big Landlords losing property, but only because they were flagrantly violating Fair Housing, running a slum, or otherwise violating the law in an egregious manner.

Ben fair question, I'm talking about simple appreciation in terms of the neighborhoods each is in.

Call a bunch of them and ask them to take you thru their fee structure.

I am fairly well connected in the REI community here. 

Most agents, I can tell you from experience, will not spend too much time on you since your so fairly new and at your purchase price your not a big fish so they will tend to put you on the back burner since heir return is not going to be a game changer.