What's much more dangerous is coming in with guns blazing and getting yourself on the wrong side of a lawsuit.I have an admittedly small sample size of one with respect to inheriting existing tenants.

Also, what can be rented out easily, in terms of size and number of bedrooms?

Larger PM's don't do as good as small to mid size operations.

@Matthew Wright know your landlord tenant laws as many states have or are enacting limits on application fees, some require itemizing and returning any unused portions if over a certain amount.

I would concentrate on the noise portion of the issue to begin with.

But here seems to be the notes:"As an appraiser, we want to see (1) a closet, (2) a "normal" size window (not a basement-type window), (3) egress into a common area (can't go through another bedroom to get to it) and (4) above grade.

The house hack portion of this story will be leaving our house for 6-8 weeks in peak season to rent it on airbnb/vrbo.

I dont know the scope of the job.. but 89k for sheetrock on just a small portion of the job is a huge number.. we sheetrock 2000 sq ft houses for about 15k total.

It only takes 30 secs of my day but yields important numbers.Example; I just checked a pending property around the corner from our rental because the size and bed/bath count is the same.

I really just want to add 2 piers tat would be the size of medium size tree trunks and elevate that section over.