My brokerage seems to be against it saying that it is complicated, risky, and a lot of extra work.

To complicate matters, during renovation we found mold in the attic, directly above the current tenant’s bedroom area, and it seems fairly significant.

The thing is the process to buy, renovate and sell is not that complicated although the Internet gurus will make it seem mystical to most and sell their services to navigate through the wickets. 

finding land will be the most complicated part in this area.

U would use an attorney if your doing a complicated JV deal though.. but for this should be pretty vanilla and easily done for a few grand at most.. 

@Bob Ross If you are hiring a builder, it shouldn't be too complicated, just something that you haven't done before.

It's complicated.

As Don K points out, title work can be quite complicated.

I "stack" them (multiple points of "pain") and use other techniques to reach the owners, rather than using mailers.

It was truly a fascinating experience.The second course, how to butter toast was a bit more complicated.