Additions can range anywhere from $10k-40k or more depending on the contractor, the size of the addition, the style of home, and the finishes you choose. 

If the property suits our management style, we would then take over tenant communication and accounts receivables.

I personally don't like the architecture of that style of building. 

I've since gotten engaged and don't want to move a new bride into a makeshift apartment in a pole barn style shop but the price of building a shop and house of any size, currently, will "overbuild" the value of the location of the land so I've opted to just having a shop and buying a house in town. 

If I cannot find 3-5 I will extend the filter to include 6 months of sales before I go further than .5miRemember that a comp should have a similar style (don't compare ranches with 2 stories), similar construction (brick vs siding etc), and similar age (+-10 years if possible)

Are you oriented toward multifamily or lots of single family?

Also, furnishing a traditional adobe style house with modern looking IKEA furniture would probably feel odd and would take all the charm out of the house.

Before they broke ground on their planned $200k build, an older neighbor they had befriended down the dirt road offered to sell them his 12 acres and 3/2 steel barn style house with outbuilding for the same $200k. 

You work hard, live a conservative life style, save every penny and the money will come in time.IN your case give yourself a couple of years of employment after graduating and see where you stand.

https://www.masslegalhelp.org/housing/lt1-chapter-...I have seen the same information on other legally-oriented MA websites.