Also, once you get the multifamily, it would seem the VA guarantee would make you a stronger applicant for your primary....because the investment property is risky....ask a mortgage broker or loan officer.

Banks often take 30 days or more to deny an application.

If your rental is smack dab in the middle of UMD campus than you might be limiting your applicants to much and need to stick with the college students (maybe consider a cosigner though for financially weak applicants).  

Looks like your standard skip-trowel plaster application.

It has been few weeks, and I haven't been able to approve a single application!

There is a quote of Winston Churchill's that is both applicable, and the best freaking quote ever if you make t-shirts for community outreach. 

It's the guys with the big bucks that are able to try out the newest technology and innovative designs, then pieces of that creativity sometimes are adaptable on a smaller scale to more commercial applications and mass markets.

Very pithy and applicable post. 

(Mechanics liens [not applicable here] need no suit in Wash. and can be filed in minutes Online lien filing. 

if it's not this model, then pick a different model that you deem more applicable.