You need to study the IRS rule on First Time Home Buyer's.

My focus is on finding off-market deals and building a strong buyers’ list.

Brickell has that same kind of potential, but with even higher rent ceilings thanks to its location.A couple of things to keep in mind as you dive in:Financing: As a first-time buyer, you might qualify for low down payment programs.

Without getting too deep into the weeds, there are a few ways to do this, including:- write up an assignable lease and an option to buy which the seller signs, then assign the lease and option agreements to a tenant-buyer.

You can also do a double close if the agent or the seller is against wholesaling.Double close is a process where you first close as a buyer and turn around and close as a seller, typically within 24 hours.I am in metro detroit too.

As San Diego gets priced out, tenants and home buyers have to go somewhere. 

Just as there is times of buyers market, sellers market or level market, there is times where it's a SFH market, Small Multi market, and MFH market. 

I have found lower end W/D more recently have been failing much faster than the higher end names (Samsung, LG, etc). 

I love the idea of fix & flip right now @Abigail King, especially right now here in Chicago and I am sure it is similar for you in central Illinois -- it's winter so there are way less buyers and if you can get under contract soon you can likely rehab over the winter months and hit the spring market!   

For example , find an apartment for 900k, find a buyer who will pay 950k you make the 50k spread in between.