The city of Chicago has made a huge push to get rid of any lead service lines, so it's no surprise you have to mess with that.   

Eric,If you are thinking of Oregon, especially Eugene, you need to talk to Dan Gandee.

Hey Gary, welcome to BP!

You can usually get this for the project's life then switch back to renters/normal if needed.

Working on finding a good attorney to help.

It generally doesn't make sense to build anything on the land to then tear it down and build something else, unless development explodes and you're tearing down ramshackle to build expensive.

However, I have never been unable to get insurance here. 

Then you do floors because you can't do base and case until the floors are in and going full costs of paint will just get damaged during the balance of the rehab (although I often complete the ceiling paint in total).

Or did you run some numbers or have some other set of data you're using to come to the conclusion that Westmoreland County is, in fact, an area conducive to being profitable in house hacking?

Keep it simple and focus on cashflow.