@Trevor CrabtreeCheck the math and the rents and make sure to factor in your cash flow calcs for maintenance and a cushion for bad actors especially  out of your area.  

I can assure you the employees involved in trying to help are good people that were doing their best to try and help solve the problem and didn't have any malicious intent.

. - From a big picture standpoint I'm also wondering if the EPA is going to be more and more malicious in how they go after older home's with "lead paint" and inefficiencies and what that will do to long term value and cost of ownership.

Here’s my FavoriteThat Don Konipol, @Chris Seveney, and @Jay Hinrichs don’t know what they’re talking about but the paid actor with no experience hired as the front man guru by the real estate “education” marketer operating out of Las Vegas charging $40,000 for the “platinum” level mentorship is providing not only correct information but all the education anyone needs to successfully quit their job and earn financial freedom by brokering mortgage notes. 

Sydicators have popped up like weeds the past few years and not all of them are very sophisticated, some are downright malicious.

This IS NOT a case anything like the BS programs we call out for $40k or more that are obvious marketing programs put together by real estate marketing companies and fronted by paid actors and failed investors.  

The licensing process for real estate requires fingerprinting, which should deter bad actors.

At any point any of these bad actors - whom this country likely has no clue who they are or what their intentions are - can do something drastic not limited to attacking our power grid; and most Americans aren't prepared for no electricity.

Buy, refinish the floor, spiff up but don't modernize, then trot on down to the Huntington Collection and furnish with quality, durable antiques.The niche market I'd target is rich parents of out of state child actors coming out for auditions.

A perfect skillset besides real estate, contract for deeds in particular, would be a knowledge of lending laws, and of course Employee Retirement Income Security Act or 1974 (ERISA).