Corey, for holding costs, talk to a Realtor or a title company..As far as repairs are concerned, just talk to a few handy men to see what they charge per sq. ft..nowadays(at least here) it's roughly about $45 sq. ft...as far as the ARV goes, check the paper to see what homes are selling for and use that as a yardstick for starters

Personally, I feel like people nowadays tend to prefer open kitchens.

This is so buyers can get mortgages from banks at this level, though nowadays I hear the limits been raised.

Aggression is generally looked down upon nowadays, but being aggressive and ruthless with your time management is a must, at least to get you moving. 

as a marketer's point of view, blogs are okay, they are not that expensive and they index faster not to add it's the trend nowadays

If he is not he should be .. then he can see its nit all biscuits and gravey .. it takes hard , hard .. work to make it in the business .. people nowadays watch a TV show and think ..hum.. i can do that .. and most can but they have no idea how things can go wrong so quickly .. and costs.. dont even get me started on the possibility of overages .. and hidden damage ..

There is a good amount of competition nowadays in the campus town area with all the new units built over the last 5 years and if you don't already have leases on all the units you could be looking at some vacancy for the first year of ownership.  

These clauses are contained, in all Promissory Notes nowadays.

Nowadays I buy cash deals and I don't stress when I can't find the "right" tenant fast enough because there's no mortgage hanging over my head. 

For #5, note that there are nowadays "tech startup" solutions to financing one's primary residence (see Unison and Point.com), but the money comes from private institutions or private sources--the money is not "crowdfunded" for many reasons--in part, because there are a lot of strange privacy issues (imagine if your home was partially owned by 50 other people.