I was terrified....i wish i had bought more..light fixes, and holds, turn over to prop mngmnt, with right funding in place beforehand is pretty easy..even less emotional than being to much into it involved present...i just suggest don't buy substantial fix, rehab and flip from out of state...and not knowing area or connections...but hold is pretty easy, not so hard, with right agent boots on ground...

We currently have about 10k saved up and substantial amount of student loans (thanks to me) to pay off.

If you invest capital gains in these zones then you can defer the gain until 12/31/26.Also if you invest in these zones before 12/31/19 and hold the investment for 7 years you do not record pay gains on the appreciation of the asset.The main criterion other than being in designated areas is that you have to either be the first user of the property or substantially improve the property.

For some of the properties all of the utilities are built into the fees which you'd need to build into the monthly rent and could be a substantial amount.

Which in turn substantially increased the land’s value even further!

Though could you give some information to substantiate your statement.

Do you advocate actually getting an actuary to develop the estimate for substantiation of the discount or is there a much easier and less costly option to complete the calculation?

I have learned that a poor refrigerant charge can make compressors run much more often than they need to, substantially increasing electricity use.

It depends on if IRS considers you an investor or trader. they look at different factors, I pulled court cases where they looked at these:(1) the taxpayer's investment intent; (2) the nature of the income to be derived from the activity; and (3) the frequency, extent, and regularity of the taxpayer's securities transactions (Kay; Mayer; and Moller)  A taxpayer is a securities trader only when both of the following are true: (1) the taxpayer's trading activity is substantial; and (2) the taxpayer seeks to profit from short-term swings in the daily market movement, rather than to profit from the long-term holding of investments. 

@Chris Mason is a broker who contributes substantially to the local BP ecosystem, I would suggest you reach out to him and see if he can help you.As a small bit of advice, I would suggest you expand your thinking about the order at which you buy your properties and the effects they may have on your future self.