The mobile home I would only want to keep for a few years to live in before building a new home. 

Building codes change and labor and materials go up.

From that experience, I got the idea of just building a multifamily (ideally a quadruplex) from the ground up as my next home to house hack in.I've done some preliminary research and had some questions if any experts care to chime in:+ There aren't many multifamily zoned lots in metro Atlanta.

Build your systems first before you decide to invest though. 

They had no interest in the mobile home; they just wanted the property so another family member could build a home on it.

With this additional expense, that would mean depleting the savings we’ve worked so hard to build over the past few years.To add to the situation, my wife and I are expecting our first baby in just two weeks!

@Richard Schubert- Yeah, I'm glad I brought the engineer out because 2 foundation contractors looked at it previously. 

Aligning expectations with investors is such a critical part of building trust and ensuring long-term success.

Have also done work in DC and Maryland and would say Virginia has significant benefits over DC and Maryland because it is more business friendly and jurisdictions are willing to work with not against developers on projects I mentioned as well as you mentioned With the federal government and government contractors not going away - area is great for investment.

How do you build trust so quickly in a new market?