Learn to outperform the market by looking at property entry values and resale values based on improvement.

You’ll often see sales with 100-200% swings within the same area, which makes having deep local knowledge and understanding the nuances absolutely critical.I do this for a living, and even with experience, comping in Detroit can still be challenging.

The challenge is knowing if the listing agent actually tells your offer to the seller or not.For example, if a distressed property is $650k and you want to offer $620k, the listing agent says the lowest the seller may accept is $645k, but is that actually true or made up because the listing agent wants their commission?

Are you seeing any emerging trends or opportunities tied to these lifestyle improvements, such as increased demand for certain property types or neighborhoods?

I do not know him, but the path he is leading you is a difficult path    Note difficult does not imply impossible; there are people who are successful with S8 housing    In my area s8 is so undesirable that they write laws trying to make it challenging to not allow S8 tenants.  

Real estate is a long term wealth building strategy and in that one year you can learn a lot about home improvement and land lording. 

Located in a promising area of Richland, MO, the home was a blank slate for value-driven improvements.

The refi or additional debt of any kind will impact the current performance of your property I'm never a great fan of selling a good producing property - unless I am certain I can improve the overall performance of my portfolio. 

New built for starting out could be a bit challenging.

I eventually want to buy a house but I think as a novice this will give me some experience and the opportunity to learn the challenges that I will need to overcome once I do buy my property.