And allow me to educate those I interact with- I want to be able to help others with my knowledge of investing and just general buying and selling of real estate to reach their goals.

Again, the BiggerPockets store has some books for this or you can learn by watching podcasts, reading blogs, and interacting on the forum.

The elevated value stems from experienced operators who are on a similar level interacting and bouncing ideas off of each other.

I’m anticipating little in terms of issues with this property for years to come.

The only problem is the Architect is hesitant and finds it too complex.Anyone have experience with the interaction between the LEED agent and Architect? 

It is challenging but we committed to going there every 4-6 weeks and having a great team on the ground ( will cost you some extra money) but they are the difference in having issueswe have one of the best cleaners in the area and our guy that cleans the grills does all my light maintenance and guest interaction if I need it(pets, too many guests etc.)3-4 hours would be a dream and you can definitely do it but you have to commit to going there every 4-5/6 weeks In my opinion because there will be things you need to address or upkeep- this is obviously only if you decide to self manage. 

Just had a super frustrating interaction with State Farm insurance.

If you want to have a longer discussion, DM me.Gino Super helpful - yes I should have anticipated the "it depends" answer.

When we were building our home we wanted to put a circular driveway in and sent thepreliminary site plan to vdot to review and they came back with a lot of comments which led us to not move in that directionAlso whatever project you are considering always assume it will take 2-3x longer to get permitted than you anticipated and you will spend 2x what your civil says it will because they live in La La land and quote it based on the best case scenario with these jurisdictions

The inspection showed   more issues than what we anticipated.