You have to buy more water taps, you have to have the property surveyed and a soils report prepared so the structural engineer can design the foundation.

new shuttersnew door & storm doorcleaning the guttersadding a small concrete stepnew mailbox & lightLiving RoomIt’s hard to see from the photo, but we replaced the lighter-colored laminate flooring with a dark coffee-colored engineered hardwood.

Set of roommates from Colorado: engineers hired by Hawker and their wives, secured jobs from Via Christi, needing home by June 1, willing to spend up to $2500.

We put down new engineered floors (hired out) and painted every single surface (ourselves), but other than that, the only other things we did were update the kitchen and both bathrooms.

(diapers in toilet & lard build up in the sink).I did the "college thing" & graduated with honors in Winter of 2006 as an Electrical Engineer. 

(And if anyone has a charming house for rent in Austin for a recent Ph.D. and her software engineer husband, let me know :-)  )

(Plus, in Virginia, you'll probably have more permit requirements than I have here in Texas - you may have to get a structural engineer sign-off on any substantial changes.)Can you insure it cost-effectively?

I am an electrical engineer with extensive IT business development experience, and long-time value investor, semi-retired in FL from my work in engineering and small business ownership.

Does the designer work with an architect and engineer that will sign off on plans?

As an engineer I have experience on buying a lot and building residential homes on it without issues.