This amounts to lost opportunity because if you had purchased RE, at the closing it can start producing return. 5) ADUs detract from the existing structure whether this is privacy, a garage, or just yard space. 6) this is related to number 1, but there are many more buyers looking to purchase homes for their family than there are RE investors looking to purchase small unit count properties.

There are guys who do make huge spreads and who can take a bad looking house and make it a good rent producer. 

Affordable deals do not typically produce cash flow.  

A and B neighborhoods typically don’t produce much cash flow and are more of an appreciation play—something the city has been seeing quite a bit of over the past decade.

See what qualifications people are looking for and do what you have to in the meantime to produce income while you're studying. 

We believe in procuring revenue producing real estate.  

But there are certain skills you need.. to be successful and not everyone has the intangibles.LIke all sales   there are top producers  there are middle of the road and there are some that just are never going to do it for various reasons.  

It does not take any revenues from them, it is revenue producing for them. 

Many of which are savvy BP type clients who are doing updates/raising rents and then the buildings do cashflow positive even with lower down payments which produce amazing returns (at 3.5-5% down you get close to a 50%+ return a year just off mortgage paydown). 

We truly believe that you'll find significant value in the Academy program we have spent over a year producing.