I’d be interested in reading your blog and learning about the process you went through. I have plenty of friends that have talked about doing what your doing, but none of them ended up doing it. I’ve told myself (and the wifey) that I think if we approach it the right way it would be cool to build a house one day. I think there are a lot more people out there telling people not to do it than people explaining that it is possible. Good luck with everything and your logic seems super reasonable to me as far as who to work with.