After you’ve educated yourself sufficiently, go find an area you want to invest in and find an affordable deal.

Side and rear setbacks are sufficient for fire safety.

It you communicate your rental criteria to prospective tenants in advance before accepting an application and application fee (required in Washington State), you would not run into this problem.It's perfectly fine to reject an application or approve it with conditions based on legal rental criteria.You may want to use a standard form, such as an "Adverse Action Notice".Here's some information from the one we use:----------ADVERSE ACTION NOTICEApplicant name ____________Applicant mailing address ___________This notice is to inform you that your application to rent the property located at ______________  has been:[] Rejected[] Approved with conditions:[] Residency requires an increased monthly rent of $_____[] Residency requires increased [] fee or [] deposit of $ _____[] Residency requires last month’s rent[] Residency requires a qualified guarantor[] Other requirementAdverse action on your application was based on one or more of the following:[] Information contained in a consumer credit report *[] The consumer credit report did not contain sufficient information *[] Information received in a criminal record[] Information received in a civil record[] Information received from references[] Information received from previous rental history or reference[] Information received from employment verification[] Inaccurate, false, or misleading statements or missing critical information on the application*If you were rejected based on a consumer credit report, you can request a copy of your credit report for free from the below-checked agency.[] Experian[] Equifax[] TransunionDated this day of ________.Agent/Owner Signature _________

I think we are going to see much more of this type of arrangement going forward as more people "retire" without sufficient planning. 

Zoning should be less of an issue, but given how rural Westminster is, I wonder whether there's sufficient demand for 100+ new homes.  

I think the photo quality is sufficient.

If your family grows sufficiently in size that the current home is no longer suitable AND your current LTV based on a new appraisal is below 75%3. 

I'm probably going to be using creative financing on as many deals as possible in order to keep sufficient cash reserves and reduce my reload period to acquiring new properties..

The other problem will be having sufficient income, verses your monthly debts, to qualify for the loan.

The FHA "self sufficiency" guidelines make many deals very challenging.