After all, they're just working for "tips".If you focus on the deal and not being cheap, you'll have a much better chance of attracting both money and profits.

You could designate him the primary lien holder, but the hard money lender who is provide way more $ would have to agree to that. 

Others feel it is less risky to maximize leverage - highly leveraged property is less attractive to lenders considering foreclosure, divorce lawyers, and other litigious types (less of own money/equity at risk, still some cash flow, and much less dead equity sitting around).

The biz LOC may not be attractive for you if your company's gross revenue is low or non existent. 

Did you design the kitchen based on what you could buy off Craigslist or shopped for a while until you found exactly what you had envisioned?

We need a structural engineer and someone to help us with the design layout of the new kitchen, laundry room, half-bath,and living space and the layout of the Master bedroom and master bath.we are in Greensboro North Carolina so we would like someone local.with an architect be the best person for the interior changes?

Except my own SFH with lanf plot, I have one 90sqm condo built, located on city center, it is an apartment with 2bedrooms and open kitchen+LR, but interior works left unfinished, bought it during design stage.

Along the way we have come along some unforeseen costs that will force us to eliminate some of the design work we had in place.

And what kind of renter does the four-plex attract now?

Essentially it is designed to be a floating floor system, which is apparently a big no-no on stairs.