A mentor can accelerate your growth, no matter what level you're currently at.

This helps with claims about dirty water etc.Either way you go, the takeaway is being able to consistently maintain a certain level of service and being prepared to integrate this into your team's schedule/management work flows. 

You would have to buy a fixer upper and get it to that that 7.5% level.

I've never owned there, but any time I dug into it, it appeared to me that the prices were too close to Smokies prices without Smokies level returns.  80% of the Smokies pricing, 50% of the Smokies revenue. 

For example, I want to know the cost needed to do a basic improvement (for a rental), a medium level improvement (live there) or a luxury rehab (use it as an airbnb).

Learning some taxes on your own will always help, but understanding it at our level takes years.In your second example, he is correct.

That's a little easier.Go to Redfin, find 3 properties that had a short DOM that sold recently that are comps in your market, look at the level of finish and design layout and make yours look like that. 

High levels of crime make de jure property rights irrelevant and destroy property values.

Compared to the recent pricing peak in May 2022, single-family home prices in Austin are down approximately 14%.For some broader context, here’s a chart of the median sales price of a single-family home in Austin over the past 10 years:As you can see, pricing in Austin is still substantially above pre-pandemic levels.

You would have to seriously level up if you want to get out of the trap that bad operators have set with the pricing wars just to cover their expenses.