My original plan was to rent out the space to Section 8 tenants, but from my experience so far, dealing with Baltimore City housing and inspections can be a serious pill.

if you are open to the Central OH market / Columbus we do ground up construction as a strategy. apartments, single family homes, etc. we have capacity for 20 new builds this year. 

. - Construction is more expensive.

Sounds like many on this thread have experience in the area.Thanks in advance,Bob

He will have the most experience knowing what works and what can cause trouble, once there's trouble. 

A cabin is not usually up to the same building regulations as a new construction home would be.

Not to say that you can't jump to long distance investing right away but if you don't have any experience I would try to at least invest in one property within a 1-2 hour drive from where you live.

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For me, though I would take this as a learning experience and work to remediate the issues and try to keep this tenant.

Lacking the capital and building experience to develop it ourselves, we want to offer the backyard as a "Developer Special" on the MLS.We’d rather not risk demolishing our home at the front of the lot.