Our rent-by-the room residents appreciate a lockable bedroom door, a private bathroom, sufficient on-site parking, a large refrigerator and a large washer and dryer (in order of most to least important).

This will help you gauge whether the rental income will sufficiently cover your mortgage and expenses.Financing Options: With your plan to put 5% down on the single-family home, make sure you understand how the financing works for the construction part.

Sufficient infrastructure: Companies select locations with major airports, highways, and a large population of potential workers.

4) For tempe, AZ are,Occupancy load; sleeping room.

Winter doesn't bring too much extra cost as long as the home doesn't have outdated appliances and has sufficient insulation.

If you are just partnering on a deal by deal basis then one attorney that both parties feel comfortable with is probably sufficient.

But if that's what it takes to sleep at night, it might be worth it.The one catch to that is that real estate is not your only option of investing.

I wonder if this is sufficient.  

If you want to be completely self-sufficient, you're willing to build an Earthbag home or another building that can be earthquake proofed but can still be run without public utilities, you can spend a ton of money on a well and can have that well water processed to remove contaminated mine crap, you have a great off-road vehicle and you can figure out how to deal with the flooding without redirecting that water onto someone else's land then you can definitely live there.If it's an Investment you're after, give that up.

It was a very long drive. 18 hours in total on the open road, I would sleep in my car along the way and live off of gas station food.