They have more skin in the game then you do.Make sure you get clear title.

How should we adjust for finished basement sqft with respect to coming up with the range of $/sqft that a neighborhood can support?

Most successful larger investors I know in Philadelphia don't GC their own stuff, they just find better deals that support a GC expense.

If they do, you can also meet with those brokers and ask if they’re looking to hire new agents, what the costs will be and what kind of support and training you’ll get, etc.As an agent you’ll be working for or “under” a broker, so choosing a good one is important and can even make the licensing process smoother for you if you can find a good one before you take the classes and new agent exam.There are a lot of little technicalities like DBR (RI Division of Business Regulation) forms and fees, required Errors and Omissions insurance, etc. and you’ll need to have a broker for some of that so the sooner you identify one you want to work with/for, the better.

Note, with rents rising, low income and government supported households are leaving Hamilton for lower priced jurisdictions.

If I still cannot get a loan then I will have to get more creative, possibly try to find a seller who is comfortable with using seller financing.My long term goal(like many of us here at bigger pockets) is to someday be able to support myself and my future family with just my real estate portfolio and other investments.

Original plan was to house hack and live in the new house and rent out the front until recently when we decided it is time to leave LA and move to Columbus, Ohio where my wife's family lives and where we have more social support and lower cost of living and less congestion - LA is a beautiful and exciting place, but insane to raise a family. 

I'd also consider buying more and just developing later when there were more rental comps in the area to support the higher rates I'd charge. 

@Beth Barnes I highly suggest spending the time to pick 2 markets, focus on 1 until factors dictate otherwise, find the best pm you can. they are already plugged in to all the other supporting team members.

Each group is pandered to with different a psudo gin-ed up problem (advertised to), and given their supposed savior national candidate to (hopefully) vote for in a primary, and then the actual primary votes do not really matter and the "Seller" chooses the predetermined runner for the National Election (hoping that because the SJW's "Felt" support for their interim media propped up (false) savior, they will Vote for the "Sellers" chosen National Candidate.In a nutshell, it seems one way to stop those local's who align themselves with the "Seller" from implementing these laws, is not educating the locals (they are missing the point of this and actually solving the made up problem), might be to somehow appeal to the National part of it.