Purchased, rehabbed, designed, and furnished totally remote!

Because Rent Controls VIOLATE the very fundamental of the designed US economic machine, free market enterprise. 

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Square/Box design of 70 x 90, 75 x 95 or 80 x 100, are the approximate dimensions.

@Gino Barbaro I believe the seed is set early and fostered via our education system, which by design is built to produce "good consumers and employees". 

I lacked the architectural knowledge to design my own.

For furnishing short- or mid-term rentals, finding the right balance between stuff that looks good, but which also offers solid durability and keeps your budget in check can be difficult.If your budget is your driving factor with your design decisions, I'd start surfing on Google image search or Pinterest - find a picture of a finished room that you like, and then reverse engineer it from products on Amazon and other similar budget-friendly sources.

Virginia requires a professional license, not necessarily an attorney- a title insurance company, RE Broker, or financial institution might help you.As to your in progress HELOC you have another problem- if the lender does any physical or interior inspection they won't lend to you.

every person who builds a house or a commercial building has to do so with 25% equity to get it financed with a bank. there is absolutely value in new construction. the hard part becomes making sure your architect knows how to design a building that can make money. but saying you don't know how to is a little silly it's the same idea as existing but ground up you just study the market and look at land more than you do anything else. you can build a house anywhere but you want to do it in better areas. it's either than or higher density's smaller floorplans, etc 

This is a great time to update your lease to (a) a month-to-month contract, so that you can ask anyone to leave if they are messing up the feng shui, and (b) add a non-smoking clause.I have written extensively on the merits of MTM leases here on BP, so you can read about my rationale if you'd like.Here's my non-smoking clause:SMOKING: Smoking is prohibited inside your unit or in any interior common areas.