I started out using deal machine but I have found that I like Batch much more than deal machine.

Bust out the ozone machine and oil based primer.

I doubt Community College will teach you anything you will ever use to make money in this business.If it did, the teachers would all be driving Rolls Royce's and living in multi-million dollar mansions--they are not.If you want to learn about SFH's (the bones and the guts of them) vs being a hammer swinger putting up framing (which you don't need to go to college to do)...study to be a home inspector at someplace like the InterNachi... https://www.nachi.org/become-home-inspector.htmOnce you earn the badges you will know your stuff about SFH inspections.But still that's a big commitment and it's not needed to make money in this business...you can hire Home Inspectors, just like you can hire tax pros, bookkeeping, and etc...If you want to learn how to "put in cabinets", "replace a toilet", "shingle a roof", add a dormer, etc...you can learn on YouTube fast and easy.If you want to learn how to frame, get a job 9 to 5 with a framing contractor, and get ready to WORK HARD.Here is a 582 page picture book of how to build a house: https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Visual-Guide-Building-House/dp/1600850227Sit down next to a Keurig Machine with a book like this and your favorite mug and learn at your own pace.  

Makes one wonder which country put them together and on the long trip over to your local stores if some damage too place.My first "new" washing machine after graduate school and moving to start my first professional job was from Sears (the only place one could get appliances at that time). 

Investment Info:

Large multi-family (5+ units) buy & hold investment.

Purchase price: $765,000

Cash invested: $120,000

This Mixed-Use Short term and long term apartment building was a rare find! ...

I wouldn't describe this as even "low hanging fruit", but as the "fruit that is on the ground". 

To be really candid, if our machinations result in a someone renting from us because they are the best candidate but they don't realize we are black, and we then build wealth from them, we feel pretty good about that. 

Buy and hold is golden in the metro though as the metro has been a long term appreciating machine.

Not to say that some wonderful investment analysis can't be done by these fantastic machines, but in the end be weary of anything that claims to make investing 1. instant wealth or 2.easy. 

We actively run an airbnb out of our basement each day and it's been rather fruitful not having to pay for cleaners since we do all of the work ourselves.