Robert,As I am just starting out myself, I make it a point every day to find stories like yours to help keep me focused and driven.Today as I was sitting at my desk doing my day job and feeling a bit burned out, I read your post and immediately felt inspired and excited again. 

I'm want to put in either hardwood or engineered floors in the living room, hallway and 3 bedrooms. 

Tenant accidentally burned the oven tray (the big tray/draw on the bottom of the oven).

That's a marketing ploy and a little like calling yourself a sanitation engineer, instead of a garbage man!  

My original goal with the project was to use San Diego's newly minted small-lot-subdivision ordinance to create three fee-simple properties but I'll get into that more in a bit...Three on AbbottI've worked at my parents' small engineering and architecture firm since graduating with a non-architecture related degree in '05.

They ask for forgiveness on late fees, or want/expect to be treated differently than our contract states.A few years ago I had a tenant ask me to waive late fees because she wanted to use her rent check to go to burning man.

The plans were stamped by a PA Licensed Engineer, but because the architect wasn’t licensed my plans were approved but held in limbo for SIX WEEKS.

Now, if there were legal issues, title matters, something more unique about the property such as an environmental issue and the agent or investor solved that problem outside the general scope of facilitating a transaction, then there is a value added as solving such issues would be incurred by another professional, an attorney, engineer, title company.Need some economics to understand the underlying justifications of "value" as well as laws of equity need to be applied.

And believe me their are those in the contracting bizz that know and understand that and will burn a non licensed contractor.

If you decide to write a contract on this property, include in the special provisions area that you want a structural engineer to inspect the property.