I’ll target southwest Atlanta, but I’d love to lock in some properties in the northern counties.

I'd like to lock the door in between upstairs and downstairs and rent out the downstairs unit and main floor unit separately to 2 separate tenants.The house is not zoned as multifamily, it's zoned one SFR per 7200 of lot space and I'm 9000 something.Do you think I will run into trouble with City or County? 

@Hunter Locke that's a damn good idea

If nobody lives in the house there will be a smell as well from it being locked up.Sorry to tell you this, but your house also has an unpleasant smell to it, just like anybody elses.

Flooring started Sat, & I'm guessing there is about 2 more days left (vinyl click-lock from Costco -- looks great, but takes a bit longer than laminate).

@Ofir Rushinek It all depends, there are some GREAT pockets in Spring Park 32207, and some that are a DMZ, but if you can find a brick or block home in the neighborhood, lock it in!

I can call a locksmith to pick up the lock box, but who will I send to the property to meet them?

Not exact, but if tenant A uses 1000 gal and tenant B uses 500 gal, A is 95% likely using 2x the water as B.The setup was the flowmeter on the tank (DM me and I can send info), then a wire to a parallel meter in an outside lock box.Once a month I read, get the water/sewer bill, take 80% for tenant use, use a XLS to do pro-rates and then do a mail merge to send a separate billing to each.The idea is to decrease water use. 

Like changing locks, hard wood floors, etc..You can also put and add out for cleaning...

Even with the decreased interest rate, you are locking yourself into a higher monthly payment when you could stay with the 30 yr and overpay as much as you want to have it paid off in 15 years as well.