If you're comfortable meeting in person, I would follow up with an email outlining what was said in person to the tenant with the resolution of the conversation also in the email.

Sometime in the future, there will be a new innovative design that will replace the current open floor plan trend, but it certainly will not be anything resembling what we had back in the 70s and 80s.

I know that you need the survey, you need to design what is going in the flooday, You need to design how you are offsetting what are doing to get a zero rise certificate, you need to get the FEMA floodway model and then have someone do the software run and make sure that you have zero rise and mybe tell you that you need to change more, but that seems to be mostly internal design and engineering?

Probably 2bdr.Make sure you're comfortable with the numbers before diving in too deep.

For example look at the zip code you are building in, for a recent new build in columbus that we do since miami is expensive we pulled all these stats: Zip Code Statistics: 43206Housing Units Delivered: 8 Average Sale Price: 642,875Median Sale Price: 505,000Average Price Per Sq Ft: $316.40Average Square Feet: 2172 Sq FtAverage Bedrooms: 3.25Average Bathrooms: 2.75Average Days on Market: 138We design the house around this, around the lot, around the neighborhood, from scratch and try to pick a long term build design that will do well.

Separately - if anyone knows a digital interior designer would love to pick there brain for an hour and obviously willing to pay. 

The 4 bed vs 3+den designation won't have any effect on the home's value, or the rental income.

With that information you can then adjust based on your design's location, size, complexity, and finishes, subtract off what you think your materials savings are, and then voila, there's your estimated labor cost.The cost/sf question gets asked all the time on the BP forums so there are already a bunch of responses out there.

It's designed for investors at all levels—novice, intermediate, and expert.

If your inherited Ira is 50k I would be comfortable cashing it out and paying the taxes on it.