With traveling nurses and workers to combat the growth of the city its a perfect environment.

Can being profitable and good for the environment coexist?

Nicholas,Most condo associations have coverage typically referred to as "bare-walls", "walls-in / original design", or "all-inclusive" style coverage per the governing docs of the association. 

Whether building or buying, house-hack numbers are harder to make work in general on 2-4 unit residential buildings in Denver; factor in the higher interest rate environment and it makes it even tougher. 

Also in the current environment, a lot of banks are tightening up lending right now so it might be tougher than say a couple years ago to get this type of financing.Here is a good breakdown of Multifamily DSCR Loans vs. traditional CRE Multifamily Loanshttps://www.biggerpockets.com/...Also, I recommend BP's Find a Lender tool as well for searching out and shopping lenders!

If the tenant sees that I care about their living environment, then they tend to care also.2.

This would likely be the best for the environment vs buying raw land to plant trees on. 

Through my W2 environment we service our clients with BIM VDC engineering services for Construction Permitting documents.

 $1500 does not sound steep to me, as long as the document being created is all-inclusive and intelligently crafted.  

Sometimes this strategy is used in low interest rate environments to help reduce your monthly debt service.