It helps the finishes 'pop' and allows the prospective buyer to visualize the use of space.  

I recommend you visualize everything that can go wrong, and determine if that's worth the negatives of taking a loan to buy something higher quality, which would allow you to attract more quality, paying tenants. 

I might place them in an area you are familiar with, but then only when I see some from competition.Then you make your signs attractive,  and answer the phone, prepared to do an instant cash offer, subject to your visual inspection. 

I'm looking to create some data visualization to help understand my market.

I can and have read many real estate investing books and could all day but being a very visual learner, context comes to me with live examples.

I can and have read many real estate investing books and could all day but being a very visual learner, context comes to me with live examples.Concept: Basically shadowing an investor in All aspects of a deal, from exploration to first tenant using the mentee's(me) money.This could happen one of two ways:I am the billfold.

I read real estate books all the time but I'm very much a visual learner!

And I can't visualize ratios. 

You need to be shrewd and swift :-)My wife usually starts with one piece for a visual, then builds everything else off of that.

I assumed it would be the same in the end but since we are going to live there this would help visualize our immediate cost and expenses.