You of course are required to use licensed contractorsI did this when I built my house.For financing purposes if you are using conventional lending the bank will require a licensed general contractor and will not let the owner act as the GC without a license - but this is a lending requirement and not a county requirementWhat county is this in ?

House built in 1940, 1,318 sq ft living area.

Several properties I am looking to buy were built around 1900.

Built in 1995, new roof 2 months ago.  

Hi Jordan,This is actually how i built up my investment fund - my wife and I have done six of these properties with the last one netting over 200k. 

Besides, I'd bet that you could hold off and make do, until you could get your own building built, Apple doesn't lease, neither does Verizon!

The local government would generally much rather have a new subdivision of mid to high end homes built and get a lot more property taxes with higher assessments.

Greetings All:I have an opportunity to purchase a former one level 28,000sf school (one level) block built in 2 phases.

A business he still works at 5 days a week putting in 50+ hours.My point here is you are young (I'm five years your junior) and have many decades to grow and operate your yet to be built real estate portfolio.

Over the last few years, we've had a lot of multi-families built, but we still have a 96% occupancy rate.