Make everything neutral (decor and lighting) and get new pics.  

Take a bit of that money and invest in learning - go to meetups and the many events that take place related to investing in the city - some for free and some paid.

I won't say how many offers we make on properties for ourselves or clients in a typical week. 

Manage their properties Provide welcome gifts/ goodie bags for their guests before check in Hauling extra supplies/ misc items to return to stores or other properties--Any other ideas that I can pitch to make myself more marketable?

They will make or break the investment.

I am about to graduate college in May 2025, and will be making about $120k (pre tax) in my full time job postgrad (Washington DC area).

Since my first property is long-distance, I figured it’d make sense to look for my next one closer to home.

Cost segregation can be a complicated topic, but I tried to break it down and make it easy to understand!

Hope is a bad strategy.The only on market strategy that I think can work is paying cash/line of credit/hard money for a property that does not qualify for conventional financing.

Looking for a turn around scanrio is an ego pleaser, makes for a great story if it works, but high risk it will never pan out the way you thought.