Anyway, I turned it into a Fourplex by adding a second floor and dividing 4 independent áreas (durock walls) with 36 square meters each (With another 16k, 10 year loan at a 11.75% rate at another bank)Each área has one room, kitchen, living room, one bathroom and a laundry place, and since the average rent for just one room in the área is around $160 I´m planing to get at least $280 for each “space”.I already have a trustful architect, attorney, Handy man and I'm still looking for an accountant who knows about RE…I had a hard time with OPAMSS (six months to fulfill their estructural requests), but every single problem came with knowledge.

Chief Architect Home Designer.

I think it would be easier to keep long term and rent it out as two units later if i move. ill be doing it legally i had the architect out the other day he's going to check with the city on what we can do exactly . ultimately  its all about the numbers making sense on the construction.

I have an architecture background (soon to be licensed California architect), I am interested in what is phrased as Architect as a Developer.  

E&O for Architects/Engineers is quite expensive.

I am an architect and builder.

Check out the Ross Chapin architect website and all his plans for small houses--a number of really nice options for 500-1000 sf.

The AIA has a killer contract like these so see if you have an architect you can ask.

Was once a more prominent place when agriculture and oil/gas industries employed more rural folks, there were more family farms etc but  just like the countless other hundreds of small towns in KS it is likely dying a slow death.If you want to invest in KS - I think being an out of stater you'd have better luck sticking to larger population centers such as Garden City, Dodge City, El Dorado, Lawrence, Manhattan, Wichita area, Hutchinson, etc etc - I'm not a big fan of Wal Mart - but find places with a Dillons Grocery Store (part of the Kroger family) or Wal Mart in town - those are your larger population centers here that will be a bit more sustainable and have more opportunity than a dying rural town with no industry.Same thing would likely apply in Nebraska, OK and I'd assume other plains states - if you can find a Wal Mart and a large major chain Grocery store in town, they've done most of the market study for you already proving there is something sustainable there.  

I was born in Idaho and recently returned to start my own company doing Real Estate and Architecture.  Both of these disciplines could be quite valuable to the right investor.  I am not currently positioned to throw a...