You will likely be hearing from me and/or my partner once we nail down our search criteria.

"Our rewards in life will ALWAYS be in direct proportion to our service"~Earl Nightingale He hit the nail on the head.

For nailing down an area to start looking, these are probably good guidelines though. 

Haul lumber, pound nails, sweep and do all the junk that hired labor does.

What can be a good motivator or role model for pushing forward and to be as knowledgeable as possible in all the areas REI requires from Nero-linguistics to Networking to Hammering a nail to dress to impress, well you name it!  

If the building is WF and you just nailed down hardwood over Plywood or OSB, your downstairs neighbor would hear every step you took.2) When you are living in an apartment where people below you can make alterations to their property, you want to compel them to ensure structural changes  won't cause you to become their unintended room-mate.

I must be a market timing wizard since I nailed (I mean to the month) the peak and had to watch my equity grow in the wrong direction for 5 years!

I think @Richard C. hit the nail on the head.  

I think @Andrew Taylor nailed it.  

And each deal will be different.After doing lots of both major rehabs and minor spit and polish deals.