Welcome to "Red Tape" Land.

See any red flags in that plan?

You are paying $143k more in taxes while dealing with a lot more red tape and restrictions.

@Jack Plantin I see numerous problems with this deal, layers and layers of red flags.

As far as Franchises for Brokers, I've always been impressed with KW, you may want to visit them, then get the red book and blue book.Meeting on basic values and Abatements this month, 1/26, site should be in my signature.

I had to explain to them that we only purchase at deep discounts to motivated sellers. 

Does seem like a red flag though.  

This can necessitate putting the shed on very deep piles, which may be total overkill but is nevertheless required by code.H refers to the height of the ascending or descending slope.  

I don't think that is very bad, they do not look deep looking at the pictures.  

I'm from the SF Bay Area, where cost of living and housing are extremely high, low inventory, lots of investors with deep pockets our here, all together making investing here tough and know I need to look outside my geographical area and I'm ok with that.