Great to see your post and congratulations on getting your license.

It may be more helpful to post this message in one of the Vermont forums. 

At a minimum,  you should understand what the current zoning is and what restrictions there are.As the post above mentioned reaching out or going in person to speak with the planning and zoning department will be very helpful. 

Sorry to hear about the mistakes.Please read this post about finding a CPA:https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/51/topics/1222774-expla... 

Or if you’d be swamped by forum posts saying developer. 

🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆Your post reply is LITERAL gold.

Hey @Chi Lo - I actually have a video on my YouTube page about this (lookup ClosedByMo on YouTube).Regarding walls being damp and waterproofed, it means there needs to be waterproofing on the basement retainer walls (this is something you can do post-construction and the contractors would need to dig around the house exposing the basement/foundation to apply the waterproofing). 

. - You have no recourse against an agent or PMC once you pay them for the placement and it turns out to be a terrible tenant:(If you have the time and network and post here for assistance, it's always a good idea to learn the rental business from the "ground up".Of course, one mistake can also cost you thousands of dollars.

Money now is very good because you are new and ready to do all the work, but the examples you'll hear about are people posting on BP saying, "well, I did all the work and they got a lot or most of the profit." 

If I can remember what gave me that impression I'll post it.