The IRS rules  say you’d need to spend more than 50% of your total working hours in real estate and hit at least 750 hours a year doing real estate stuff to qualify.

holes and sticky stuff colorful on my entry door that can’t be removed.

You are overthinking the stuff, but not the location.

If stuff is selling for the same price 3 and 4 beds then keep it the same...

However we can all thank Amway for how this stuff is presented thats the bottom line

Would love to hear from anyone with good pointers and stuff a newbie should be aware of!

But the learning curve is steep and I'm years ahead of you...I have systems in place to deal with this stuff that will take you years to develop yourself.

I just wrote him back and said hey we get into contract I can run some of this stuff down but not going to spend hours figuring out all the fine details on all the components of a new build ..

Look for neighborhoods where there are lots of people with bad hats and bad facial hair.

Neighbors can have legitimate complaints or they can make up stuff out of jealousy or for political reasons to cause you headaches.