Just taking peeks in the area, I've adjusted my goals to creating that growth in equity and net worth.

We still cold call for 100% of our deals today, and will do about $1M in assignment fees this year. 100% of our deals come from manually pulling our own data.

The bank protects you by disbursing payments to the contractor ONLY when certain milestones in the project have been reached.If you're looking to pay for the rehab out of pocket AND want to manage the project yourself, J Scott's books provide a great manual.

Without these tools, you'd have to do a lot of manual data collection and copy/pasting of comps/data into a spreadsheet for every property you analyze, was kinda the reason for building this out.

Just as a reminder in addition to the interest rate, amortization schedule and fixed period of the loan, inquire about: 1) Prepayment Penalties (In case you want to refinance in a few years), 2) Possibility of Rehab Funding, 3) Reserve Requirements, 4) Personal Guarantees, 4) Rate Adjustments (i.e. at the 5 year mark) to understand other variables in the loan product that works best for your project.

She said that there are very few variables that can play out which could prompt small adjustments to this rule, such as small adjustments to meet quarterly rollouts, but she said that this system is still very much at play and hasn't changed since she's been managing Pemco. 

But if you can adjust your debt situation that relieves most of the risk of owning real estate. 

Thankfully you have partial overlay cabinets, so some wood-fill for the holes, sand and touchup paint.Not sure what is on the other side, or over, your range, but me, adjusting the layout would be the ideal option, but will likely not be cheap, since it will almost certainly result in new counters, if not also some fill and/or a new cabinet or two (depending on if any cabinet to the left of range is able to be moved over to corner area).What was originally there?  

CrimeIndexer.com has a map of total crime volume and a map of crime density adjusted for population.

It's tough to say with certainty and it a lot of success in the MTR market hinges upon operating ability, property layout, understanding your clientele and ability to adjust to the market.This article does flag some cities that are good for MTRs: https://www.stessa.com/blog/hot-spots-medium-term-rentals/