Your ability to learn, absorb, and adapt is going to serve you very well.

Another option would be adaptive reuse and or vacant and heavily distressed properties.

The property is a 100 year old storefront that got an adaptive reuse into a mixed use property by adding two apartments in the vacant upstairs.The building got a full overhaul in the process including all new HVAC, electrical, plumbing, fire sprinklers, structural repairs, ADA compliant bathrooms, and new storefront facade.

Purchase price: $717,300 Cash invested: $196,080 Sale price: $806,500 RE Lesson : Adapt and Overcome.

Next time tho go whole hog and put a pit less adapter on it. 

I believe that title and escrow companies are just doing their diligence in managing expectations up front so as to keep clients happy if the 30-day close is not as common while everyone adapts to and understands the new process.  

However, as I gain more experience, I've transitioned more to care about quality of cash flow over quantity (which seems like we are on the same page), more about long term growth in rents and prices (but who knows what happens short term) having seen the power in them absolutely dominating my returns over day one cash flow in the long haul, having sold some stuff as well as cash out refinance I care about equity position as it gives you more options in terms of exit strategies, and having sat out a large part of the recovery (after 2012) on new buy and hold acquisitions while some smart flipper friends made lots more money I have learned to become more strategy agnostic to adapt to the strategy that the local market is telling me is the best rather than sit on the sidelines or worse yet force thin profit deals with just one strategy.

I have background and skills in the following areas:-Administrative (paperwork, emails, phone calls, using office equipment, and can type 50WPM)-Sales -Customer Service-Working with a high volume of workload and performing well under pressure and deadlines-I am an Army Veteran so it is second nature to be quick and ready to adapt and change plans in an instance -I'm polite, professional, and motivatedIf you believe that you could use some help in any of the areas I am strong in and are able to share some knowledge with me as I grow into being an investor myself, feel free to contact me via Private Message and hopefully we can build a great working relationship.Thanks Sabrina Hill

And commuters in NY adapt quickly.  

In Publication 527 the IRS defines improvements as something that “adds to the value of property, prolongs its useful life, or adapts it to new uses.”