The financing aspect, I typically recommend my clients to go to a lender that it's it hour their career, and those guys aren't usually in banks.

Legal use is determined only by the building department, which usually means actually going down to the building department, giving them the plat and lot, and seeing what they come back with as the legal use.I've encountered many times in my investing career (including just last month) where the tax assessor and building department had different # of units, and the building department is the one that matters.Usually the issue with making something a 3rd legal unit is whether the lot size is big enough, especially whether there is enough parking.

What a great find.My name is Sean and I'm hoping to move on from a 20 year career in IT consulting and into full time real estate investing.

Because I own businesses in other fields its great to wall off the software by company from the employees view but from my vantage point it's one system that reaches people in all parts of the organization, allows us all to work together on projects and enhances inter office communications.

I have been extremely passionate and dedicated to get my real estate investment career started.

I know this is not a easy field of work, and that I know very little bit about it, but I want to learn, whether that means reading or helping someone else. 

I've just filed for BK after making a lot of money in the oil fields but I will soon have zero debt and around 3k a month investment money.

In my opinion it's always best to gather multiple points of view because there is always something my narrow field of vision will miss.

,I want to start my real estate career and I'm not too sure where to begin.

Finished my career on The Rock with 3rd CEC at Hansen.Good luck on your journey.