I think the biggest mistake that many inexperienced investors are going to make is waiting too long to capitalize on any softness in the market.

Part of me says yeah get 3,4, 10 deals like this done, and then start paying off debts, but the inexperienced part of me is nervous and would rather keep my debt low and own my properties outright. 

Are there any investors in the Columbus, Ohio region that would be open to future partnerships with a young, inexperienced, but eager investor?

I don't know how a bank will react if the answer is they are going to re-lend it to their inexperienced nephew just out of college who just moved into town to invest in real estate with no experience. 

The inexperienced realtor said that the owner inherited the property and had no intent of fixing it up and that she just wanted to sell it so that she could move back to Texas. 

You treat them wrong and they tell all their friends.All this is just my inexperienced opinion. 

When an inexperienced layman trys to GC a medium size project with the attitude “how hard can it be?”

Many "assets"  in this time frame were purchased by very inexperienced operators using inappropriate comp rents to justify an enormous rent bump post renovation.

Trying to read the tea leaves of this pandemic and the hurt it could bring is hard.

By some metrics, pricing here actually went up 1-2% over the last month, but it’s hard to read the tea leaves and really compare stats accurately to pre-COVID times this soon IMO considering all the new variables like showings only recently being allowed again and the fact that we have about half the inventory/sales activity as normal).