My thoughts are tying up a house, doing the design/plans, getting a after repair appraisal, selling them the house and making some money on the front end then build in the remaining of my profit as the design firm?

You'll want to make sure your letter is designed and crafted to get a motivated seller to call YOU.

. $4500 seems like A LOT of money to transfer our digital plans into CAD (the contractor already built-out our design ideas on his laptop's software) and have an engineer ensure we're using the right beams in the right places.

I am pretty sure that is what this site was designed for.

The property has ample parking spaces but the leases do not designate parking spaces for each of the units.

Hi Blair, I feel your pain there is nothing out there on the web with efficient quad designs.However I have 3 newer 4 plexes that I want to use the design from, but adding a bedroom and bath. 

I was in the construction and design team side of houses and multiplexes for a long time, I'm good at  the numbers side of this game but wondering how fast and how big I should expand?

The conventional financing guidelines were designed with the primary end user in mind for the most part with slight accommodation for investment or non owner occupied use (75% of gross income and other simplistic rules).Good post Ruddy!

A little bit about myself...I was born and raised in Westchester, NY (about 45 minutes north of Manhattan) and currently have a career in Interior Design & Textile Sales, with an extensive background in residential design & construction.

Quickbooks was not designed for a real estate business.