With that being said if you’re bound and determined to get a degree, get a degree that you make good money with…  One guy on the forum is an attorney that appears to have a mountain of confidence,  he’s an attorney, and it appears that he’s actually tearing up real estate..

That time frame will determine your RE strategy. 

to determine neighborhood classes.

A hard pull allows a lender to run your file through an automated underwriting system to determine whether or not you're pre-qualified.

Never fully trust anyone that isn't willing to share the negative aspects of all this.As I'm sure you've experienced, this can be a very rewarding path to take and depending on your grit and determination, overcoming all the pitfalls are well worth the effort.Cheers and drive safe!

Does anybody have insight on how we can reach higher rents or how the rent value is determined?

December is the worst month to try to rent the property.Who determined the rent price?

I find that other formulations of the risk adjusted return analysis either (1) are too simplistic (typically the ones available through an internet search or (2) are so complicated and require so exactly an information input determination that to successfully use requires an advanced degree in statistics or analytics (usually ones taught in “top ten” college courses or (3) are so poorly developed that they can’t be relied on within 3 standard deviations from the mean.  

You have to follow the interest tracing rules to determine the deductibility of interest.

I did not know of this time log requirement for STRs, so as a newbie I am going back through emails, texts, phone logs, invoices, etc. to determine how much time I spent on everything.