For my first-time investors, I recommend going the townhouse route because they are very rentable, less per door than SFH, appreciate well and much of the exterior maintenance is handled by the HOA.Happy to chat and answer any questions you have about the area.

I hired a professional paint company and gave them 50 gallons of paint to paint the exterior of a 6-unit and 14-unit apartment buildings side-by-side.

Car magnet ?

Will the attic units have windows and exterior entrances?

You have to meet Commercial code, ADA units, fire sprinklers, elevators (maybe), walkways, exterior stairways, etc.

This typically includes and exterior and interior makeover and re-leasisng to whole new set of tenants at much higher rents.

I custom designed all the windows and exterior doors.

I custom designed all the windows and exterior doors.

When we built our home 10 years ago trusses and framing was all panelized (no sheathing on exterior though) and our house which is above average size they were setting floor joists one day and framing the floor the next so within about a week to two weeks the house was framed. 

Water was seeping into the house through holes in the exterior brick after a heavy rainstorm.