Although I did learn a little and met some awesome folks I feel as though I learned more from this website and other free resources on the internet than I did from what I found to be an outdated home study course and this extremely high-level Three Day Seminar.The seminar I found to be 10% focused on education and 90% focused on selling the coaching programs that are designed and intended to guide the recipient to earn in upwards of $100k/ per annum in investing.   

He has bought the land and paid for design and survey work out of pocket.

(heloc or refi)I am an engineer by trade, and own my own comapny (AHAE Designs Inc).

Purchased, rehabbed, designed, and furnished totally remote!

Because Rent Controls VIOLATE the very fundamental of the designed US economic machine, free market enterprise. 

BiggerPockets is full of resources designed to help you along your journey, whether you are just getting started or a seasoned investor.

Hate to burst everyone's bubble but let's not kid ourselves by saying "I only invest in red states".

Square/Box design of 70 x 90, 75 x 95 or 80 x 100, are the approximate dimensions.

Take a look at the study from Amsterdam. by Piet Eichholtz Eichholtz_A-long-run-house-price-index.pdf (maastrichtrealestate.com)basically a nearly 400 year study of the prices of the same homes along the best canals in Amsterdam since 1628, and the prices rose at about 2-3% or the historic rate of inflation there, same study has been retroactively and proactively studied in almost all countries on Earth and they all get same answers over long term, (Re rises with inflation rate) Now you can have short term bubbles like now in USA, but they usually deflate like the 22% drop from 1929-1935 or the 34% drop from 2006 to 2012, which many of us benefitted from.

For furnishing short- or mid-term rentals, finding the right balance between stuff that looks good, but which also offers solid durability and keeps your budget in check can be difficult.If your budget is your driving factor with your design decisions, I'd start surfing on Google image search or Pinterest - find a picture of a finished room that you like, and then reverse engineer it from products on Amazon and other similar budget-friendly sources.