I've seen other posts that suggest conducting an ARV analysis to get this answer, but I just don't have enough experience (or confidence) to trust the results that I would achieve.

In the end, due to the "great news" they found, they ended up not installing an overhead sewer line or digging out front to attach the downspouts to the mainline in front of our house, but instead, redirected some of the existing piping and doing an edited version of the proposed plan that more heavily used the intact mainline under the house.The end result has seemed to be a resolution to the problem (so the ultimate purpose of the work was achieved), but with what I would estimate to be about 50-70% of the total proposed work.

I truly don't think there are that many "bad" markets if you have the right goals for that market, and a realistic understanding of how to achieve them.

I've become obsessed with the idea of using real estate to achieve financial freedom and to fuel my adventure travel lifestyle. 

I want to start connecting with like minded individuals in hopes to help each other achieve our long/ short term goals in the investing world.

That helps and we have full resources at our company to achieve that.

I know a large scale is the way to achieve major results but if the goal is to just find one discounted property every year or so, then maybe a small campaign would work?

I want to achieve financial freedom and retire early by owning rental property and doing flips.  

But is that occupancy achievable?  

In others experience, are numbers such as 30-50k profit each year something that took you all years to achieve?