We plan on living in the house and doing most of the fixes and renovations ourselves.

hi @Jaycee,  the top floor(the one you see on the listing 8915 E Wes Pl Tucson), is essentially a ground floor as far as entering and exiting the home as the bottom floor(finished basement etc) is underneath it built into the other side of the foothill the house is sitting on.  

It will be a 3 or 4 unit and planning on doing STR on one as an experiment.

No, he's not an architect, he drew all designs, floor plan, site plan, etc, and we had a structural engineer design his part, and paid an architect to sign off on them.  

My original plan was to utilize a real estate agent to be my property manager that I met through a Dave Ramsey referral program, but I'm exploring if I should attempt this on my own.  

I don’t plan on doing anything until summer and I might just leave it the way it is.

Can you arrange for counters, floors, painting other “basics” without him tacking on his 20%?

got out of flipping to new construction in our market in columbus ohio. licensed general contractor. when interest rates got high single family existing went down by 30% new builds sold at a 6% increase that year which demonstrated the desire and premium that new construction commands. never looking back. total control, rinse and repeat. we can get permits in 28 days. we can buy land cash in 21 days. we can build in 120 days to 140 days and keep moving. super scalable and easy and no risk. we build the same 2-3 Floorplans 

@Pixel Rogue everyone has different future plans - many though haven't thought that far ahead!

We went over the inspection report with the agent and he only highlighted the floor and water heater needing replacement.. and that everything else is cosmetic.