I did this because I have aspirations to invest internationally in several locations in central and south America and didn't want to just talk the talk or be a wantrepreneur, rather put myself in the field and put the building blocks together myself..I am currently waiting for the CA Bureau to approve my license application so I can take the test to receive my RE license (completed the course work in Spring of 2018 while going to school full time, working part time).

For example, if you are going to focus on Google Adwords, you have ads and are continually running optimization tests, you have all keywords setup (including negative keywords!) 

Finished all the required classes and tests and am setting up to do the application.

The bar to get a contractor’s license is also quite low with an open book test and 15 hours or so of education.

She might just be testing you to see how you'll respond. 

All the free trial are great to test them out as far as learning curves.

And yet, I know the furnace is going to need replacing in the next 5 years ... pretty much do a happy dance every year when we fire up the heat to test it.

If you are using the 1% test (rule), that is based on the total price including repairs.

Structurally which multi family would stand up the test of time the best with the least issues, brick, wood, concrete etc. ?

I feel that I should look into other real estate markets and test waters else where.