The crazy thing is I think I have a good shot at making it and the old goal has washed away. 

Machine sheds.  

I suggest to look for solutions where you keep the current hard surface - at a minimum I would just pressure wash the concrete. 

County MD just outside of Washing, DC and Northern, VA.

Was he properly licensed and insured?

Rent by the room has been tried for quite a long time by private investors, and any increase in profits is usually lost in the wash due to high turn-over, property damage, and tenant conflict.

I had a committment from Wash Fed for 70% and then they backed out.

Perhaps look into some kind of white noise machine to dull the impact these small noises have on you.

Austin has been a job creating machine for many decades and not necessarily with engineering.

My advice to people looking today would be to build a time machine and go back to purchase property in 2012.