I was in a situation similar to yours and I have a duplex corner unit with a natural basement egress and tall enough ceilings.

I believe you can always incorporate various tactics to set your property apart.

I work in corporate sales as my W2.

Thank you for chiming in and helping us better understand the nature of your valuable tax education programs.

You'll need to provide Entity Docs for each LLC that is a part of the transaction so that the underwriters can review them all the way down to the natural individuals/warm bodies. 

To do that, as long as you don't hit any of the standard tests (just google "material participation tests" to find the 7 tests), you are passive, and you can offset that income with your other passive losses.It will all come down to the nature of your involvement. 

You need to contact the governing body that has jurisdiction over the zoning laws for either the incorporated or unincorporated of the county or city for the plot you are interested in building on.  

If you don't do this, do you have a particular reason (such as you'd find out through a different part of your process that someone is scammy) or is it something you just never thought of incorporating into your screening?

In the past I got houses that were move in ready so I did inspections as natural course. 

I'd be more concerned about natural lighting (large windows $$) and creating a space people actually want to rent.