I’ll take it…there is a margin of safety here and room for miscalculations and errors.

i don't like living in the same place with stranger. it will be sharing the same living room and kitchen.

Being familiar with common business pitfalls and learning how to avoid them, in my opinion, can be learned in the class room (and on BP) when you don't have it all on the line.Personally I majored in business administration with a concentration in entrepreneurial management.

The property is rock solid, but not a lot of room to gain intrinsic value thru rehab, but an opportunity to increase under market rents.

I've seen that the usual payment for bird dogging is around 1-2 grand max

If this is a really great deal then perhaps there is room enough to just let it go and close and deal with it yourself.

We have good network here.Kevin Wells I like El Cajon, we remodeller the Motel 6 there, 182 rooms.

You have to follow the local building code or ask your Architect to calculate the light and vent required for each room so you can decide what type of window you can use.

As well, I find that many consumers are ill informed and don't really care about the windows... they see all the nice shiny, new things/rooms in the house and if the windows are letting light in, they often don't give it a second thought.A contractor once called me up as he was putting a large addition on his brother's million dollar plus home in Northern Virginia.  

Older homes in our area often have a functioning forced air furnace with ducts for all 1st floor rooms but gravity registers (basically holes-with-grills through the 1st fl ceiling/2nd fl floor) for the 2nd floor.