., trades, remodeling, permits, taxes, settlement process, etc.).  

I vividly remember the countless hours spent driving to and from remote locations in rural Manitoba, alternating between early BP podcasts and Jim Rohn recordings.Over the next two years, I adopted an extremely frugal lifestyle, enabling me to achieve a 75% savings rate, sold my custom truck for a used Toyota, traded my new home in the burbs for a duplex (house-hack) in a challenging neighbourhood of Winnipeg where attempted break-ins were commonplace.

I used to do forecasting like this, in my realized investment after 10 years during cheap money where CD=0% ; mortgage rate=3% ; appreciation curve is 6% yoy.The result of net investment (after fee and commision) is similar to CD with 13-14% rates.Now that money is expensive, my modelling says it would be around 7-9% ; almost similar like the return of conservative debt/HML fund.

I'm a it girl by trade and a future investor bu passion.

Maybe take this opportunity to move to a different location, get a good paying job.Expose yourself to other people like you.Maybe learn a skill/trade - hvac, plumbing etc.Make youtube videos of your journey.You are 24  - you have so much life ahead of you - get out there and make some mistakes !!!

The rental has quite a bit but it's at a 2.875% rate that I wouldnt trade for this deal.

Its a trade-off.

If you start with class D the most likely outcome is that you will learn a lot in a short time and then either trade into better neighborhoods or just get out of REI all together.

Developers can also do their own projects, and sub out all the different trades, etc. 

more than likely you will need to speak to the land groups of home builders or the land and development groups of multifamily buying groups and most are going to be publicly traded. make sure you have enough housing units. if you provide more info I can help out. there's a million different niches in development and more than likely less than 10 buyers for what you are talking about in any niche. we just reached out to Greystar for apartment development site we are putting together that is a vertical development. we called their office for the midwest and messaged every single person on their team on linkedin. put the effort in and you'll get results.