As a resident of New York for many years I will, with enormous difficulty and restraint, refrain from making any comments about the Highway State here.Now to some more of the helpful part:I am reasonably certain the landlord's post-contract stipulation is, as you are certain, illegal.

There are an enormous amounts of properties in Portland that are AirBnbs that are zoned residential.   

Flooring I find that most of what I can / want to do has already been learned but I find that YouTube is helpful as are owner / equipment manuals as well as family resources for knowledge and lastly, this website BiggerPockets has been an enormous resource for myself in regards to the business side of management.

I will admit though, an enormous amount of learning in this business was done.

There’s a 12 step program for debtors that can help enormously sort this stuff out and deal with the issues that got you into the mess you’re in in the first place.

The 1100 sq ft unit is by far the cheapest as most others in the building are $1.5-30m.So my question is down the road, would the spectacular view apartment being enormous at 2000 sq feet with killer views but at $450/sq ft be the better buy even though its in a worse area vs a condo thats half the size with no view in the best area?

Unfortunately, we figured out this enormous scalability after we liquidated our capital for development of what is now phase 1 (80 acres) where we thought the sole cultivation site on this property would be. 

.#8 There's an enormous amount of information out there but remember this key piece of advice.

I thought the same thing as @Russell Brazil - the house will need to be enormous with unbelievable quality to get that in Rockville.

There's a moratorium on building multi family in my town that was instituted to stop an enormous multi family development.