A recent sale in the area was 282,000 though a nice house with garage space.I will check the zoning for boarder status.

They are recommending American Modern Insurance.I am wondering what others with LLCs in PA are using and content with.

You can't add a garage, paint, change exterior, etc.

Put in a second full bath, where someone had started converting the garage into a 4th bedroom. 

Logic tells me that if I figure the extra land is worth $200K, that if I refinish this home to rival the others, that I can market it in the $800s.I've considered subdividing it, but it is 30' short of frontage to have 2 homes unless they are semi-detached by use of a breezeway or garage. 

It's a nice gesture to supply a fire extinguisher under the kitchen sink or maybe one in the garage for safety, right?

They didn't care at all that the door between the garage and house wasn't a steel fire door.

Then of course you will need an over sized 4 car garage and workshop to keep all the toys in ."

I'am Currently a License home improvement contractor and own a Garage cabinetry and walk in closet installation business.

Everybody but one failed to see the most important factor in your post - that you are doing a "contemporary" project and as such, opinions should be based on that, not what everybody "likes".Lastly, I have had multiple projects here in Southern CA with this very same issue (several when going for contemporary and one where I was changing from Tudor to traditional with some modern flares.