@Marc Shin Well now you're getting brave....asking us BPers for design advice.... :-)

Not to mention we have grown our PM staff by almost 50% to help better support our growth and overall management.We are currently building out 5,000 lots ion Florida If you would like a free copy of my best selling book "Passive Income Playbook: How To Leverage Build to Rent Real Estate to Buy Back Your Time And Have a Legendary Family Life"  just let us know and we will send you a copy thanks Brandon  owned by a Japanese company, the floorplans are pretty poorly designed and larger than build to rent should be. the 4 plex they have is a higher price per door than th national average and needs to be modified. horrible designs.

Hey @Joy Daniels, I read everything I can all the time.I read a few blogs that go over products and some design.

I will also be doing all the cosmetic things you can think of: paint, flooring, bathroom reno, kitchen reno, so I am open to carpenter or design suggestions.  

Since I'm taking such a cash hit, I asked the sellers agent if they would be able to designate some portion of the sale price ($200k?)

If you see at least a few zoned in the designations you mentioned above, that's potentially a good sign that you can get support from the local Alderman's office, and approval by the ZBA (zoning board of appeals), to rezone.

I would designing, renovating and managing the property.

There is a web site that lists all the section 8 housing, so people might be also be looking there. 

Basically, these are lands that technically qualify as Sending sites, but that have issues such that nobody really wants to build there.

I know REIGuard is easy and designed for investors.