There's no doubt that he has assembled an impressive team that's there for NON action takers that comes at a steep price.  

If it's cash flow you're more focused on, generally your midwest and south east states are more favorable, but to reiterate, if you don't have a resourceful team assembled, I can almost guarantee you won't have much success.

Over the course of the past year we've assembled a development pipeline in excess of $25M in the neighborhood and would love to connect with others who are active in the neighborhood.

Hey all - I'm in the early stages of obsessive learning so that I can jump into REI as prepared as I can be. I'm trying to get some feelers for who you trust as a CPA and real estate attorney. I'm in the Pittsburgh ar...

One involved using a funnel from one of his toys and one involved doing something in an assembly line fashion to reduce the amount of time it took to switch tasks. 

In this game, knowledge is your superpower.Finally, assemble a team.

You’ll need a general contractor and understand of building code since you are turning this from a residential 1-2 family building into a commercial 3 plus unit building- do you have 8’ headroom throughout the basement as an example, do you know to do fire and sound proofing ceiling assemblies for the new unit and common stairwell areas, do you have 1 hour fire rated doors in any common stairwell built into your budget, how many egress windows have you budgeted, what about plumbing, heating and electrical as they all have meet code requirements?  

Instead, find a local furniture store that carries some interesting things AND DELIVERS (e.g. not IKEA - you can look at vintage or secondhand furniture stores for some of the more interesting things, but check out the regular local furniture stores too).The benefit of buying from a local furniture store, as well, is that you can build relationships so when you're in a situation like I was a couple of months ago where I had to replace a bed, you can do something like this: I called up my sales rep, told her what I needed, she texted me photos of the beds she had in stock, I picked one, paid for it over the phone, arranged delivery, got it delivered and assembled.  

That low price comes with you having to assemble it all but pretty decent stuff.

I agree that you should take a few days to assist with the set up.You could hire a handyman or similar to help assemble and move stuff around.Maybe a local realtor or BP local could help for a nominal fee?