You might try driving around your area and see if you can find any ongoing projects similar in nature as to what you have in mind and attempt to have talks with the contractors on site or even the owners if they are available. 

They can literally see us walk in/out of the bathroom unless we have the curtains drawn, but then there's no natural light in the living room.We would like to build an 8-ft tall cinder block wall (similar to our one with the other neighbor) between us and the apartments.

I bought a distressed property, so naturally protested the value as soon as the house was mine. 

We originally wanted to only use her RE lic. for our flip properties but...she is a natural and already has 3 sales in her first month.

It's a steam boiler fired by natural gas.

I think it's just the natural thing that happens in an investors brain at a certain point of their house hunting.  

Take time to sit down and write down everything about your current situation and turn that into numbers and time frames required to adequately address any financial issue.

With the right person everything else flows naturally.

Ouch and ouch.The city's failure to adequately pay into retiree pension funds, coupled with an Illinois Supreme Court ruling that locks in pension promises at their current levels, left the city few options.

I make plans all the time, daily, and then the natural course of events tends to dictate how closely those plans get followed - they don't last very long.Goals on the other hand are great!