Your advise of backwards planning or reverse engineering is an excellent approach that becomes even more effective when identifying risks and mitigating those with various controls.

Excellent point and sage advice.

My experience with Hughesnet was horrible-for 6 years I had no choice and I had their most expensive plan.

I am a registered nurse with no debt and an excellent credit score. 

I pumped this property through my spreadsheet, as a two family; your choice if you want to take the illegal apartment risk. 

Currently in the process of acquiring land from the city to start the permitting phase of the project.Q's:  Anyone know of any excellent real estate attorney's, multifamily insurance providers, ground up construction lender?? 

As for self-growth in human relations and productivity, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey is excellent.

If you have good to excellent credit that is a bit high in closing costs. 

@Shawn Mcenteer excellent answer buddy.

There's a reasonable chance that I could qualify for a $1 million conventional home loan (based on my income, debt-to-income ratio and excellent credit score) and I could ask him if he'd be willing to wait for the 45-60 day close on the conventional loan (which he may be ok with, if he's selling to me); however, I only have about $30k to put down (not the $200k+ required for 20% down plus closing costs).