I guarantee Buffett would not pay down a conventional home loan early and neither would virtually any 1%er.

There are few art aficionados in real estate and most buyers will be looking for something affordable that makes economic sense more than aesthetics. 

AORE (Art of Real Estate) their next meeting is 6 Oct 0800 at the Savannah Rapids Pavilion.

and or your going to have to put up EM at some point .. so you need that money.. you don't want to lose it because your lender backs out.Anyway those are a few things to keep in mind.. right now finding properties at 70% ARV minus repairs is pretty tough to do.. and virtually impossible for a beginner UNLESS they are willing to spend thousands on marketing and go direct to sellers.

I can already see my local area as a comfrot zone that I dont want to be stuck in, so doing things in a virtual way and traveling wont bother me and I am a hop skip and a jump from a lot of places. 

I ended up going with a virtual brokerage.

I buy duplexes in Indy with similar numbers for 40-80K and I only buy them in areas that are virtually guaranteed to revitalize/appreciate.

Neighbors have been watching over with state of the art security cameras but they said they didn't want to get involve so they didn't report anything. 3.

They just need to be good caretakers of the property they have been entrusted with.Another excellent book for beginner real estate agents is "How to Master the Art of Selling" by Tom Hopkins who taught real estate agents the professional way to sell properties.

Running comps is more art than science and there is no single formula to adjust upwards or downwards as every market has its own norms and the same can be said for sub-markets within that market.