Thomas S. the same requirement exists in almost every jurisdiction in the US as well.

What is the going rice for new roof for 1500 sq feet house in Montgomery? 

Stick to <65% LTV's: in all of the recessions, including the great financial crises, housing prices have never declined more than 30%. 65% is a staple number for most hardmoney lenders for this reason. 3.

Fire rating exterior walls on structures like these would be another expensive requirement that would continue to drive up the cost housing which is the last thing we need.Here's the code section I found Exception #2

Purchase price: $248,000 Cash invested: $12,800 House hack I was able to make around $100 a month while living there.

I found it really time consuming to measure for every single repair in a house so automated calcs as much as I could based on room sizes.  

We plan on house hacking it so it will set up the next deal and so on.

Thank youCash flow is gonna be very difficult if not impossible in Frederick county, you might find some cash flow in Hagerstown, though the most housing stock is just utter **** inside the city, I’d look to buy like in halfway or something where at least the housing stock is decent.

Anything could go wrong with a house in that price range.

For example, you can buy a $50,000 house that will rent for $1,000 a month, but it will also experience significant tenant problems, expensive turnovers, long vacancies, and other costly problems.