For liability I'm thinking if someone gets hurt on the job site, we find out the home building materials were toxic, something along those lines. 

It’s easy to find tenants, population/jobs are increasing, and property taxes/insurance aren’t skyrocketing. 

However, we are expecting 2 rate cuts this year.

My uncle has an offer he pays all development fees and then gives the guy who engineers it all 33% gross cut.

You make half a million a year with your W2 job.

City employees generally get the job done in one week, third parties can take two weeks to get this done.

For most loans especially for first time homebuyers, your lender wants to see a 2 year work history of the same job that you are or will be working (same thing if you are self-employed).

The fire inspectors couldn't care less about your bookings and are taking their jobs VERY seriously. 

Those other probs have now gone away plus I'm making a lot more dough from my regular work/day job these days.

Your realtor will do a lot of the acquisition hand holding you're looking for and BP and your local network can help with any concerns you have getting folks into the property and managing it, or you can hire a property manager to do it, albeit at 10-15% of gross and they won't do as good a job as you will.