Nothing hurts worse than losing money on your first deal or having to hire an attorney after the fact to fix mistakes that could have easily been avoided by working with someone who has already been down that road. 

So I am stuck between three things I would say; a 2-3 unit house, a house with 2-4+ bedrooms that I can rent out any additional bedrooms at the market value, or a one unit house that can 'easily' be converted into two units. 

I think this could be helpful for anyone working in any facet of real estate--especially within and around Whatcom County.I'm looking for help in coming up with the categories for contractors (so that the list is easily sorted).

These mid and small businesses can't easily pay government imposed fee's and conform to expensive compliance mandates. 

@Conor Murphy Please don't take this the wrong way but it appears to me that these are all questions that your agent should be able to answer relatively easily. 

So you easily left $800K on the table by owning out of state properties.

Where is the dividing line where on one side you could easily do these tasks but are too lazy, as opposed to you are getting in the way of yourself if you don't pay someone to do it?

My designer is able to have a rough drawing of the place completed by the time we leave the house and with a measuring tape we can get all of the dimensions easily.

You could easily eat up 10% of your profit, leaving you with a 20% spread.

It could very easily cost me 20k to fix these situations so I can get my money back.