The real question is how much this would skew the plotted data.Currently, I do split the market into the avg high, mid, and low $/sf segments over time, you can see the high-end (renovated/new) product shifts with the most magnitude (across almost every market not just 91324), but this does not represent absorption like you desire, only $/sf:To research your hypothesis, I would have to:1) Select a year's worth of transactions (ideally across a 10k+ transaction/year market to be representative, say Los Angeles)2) Manually review every transaction's photos, marking them 'Renovated/New' if it is, to segment this transaction data from the rest of the transactions3) Calculate & plot absorption of the 'Renovated/New', and compare it to the absorption of the rest of the transactions4) When overlaid atop one another, their slopes would reveal the impact you mention in your hypothesis #1     -If you are right, we would see the cheap houses slope increase heavily Q1-Q4, with the expensive houses slope decreasing Q1-Q4, and vice-versa.I've run comps thousands of times when underwriting (looking for high-end renovated homes to use as comps) and I have yet to detect such a phenomenon.

., that's typically a 9-12% guaranteeded ROI on your down payment.Tax write offs: the more the better.The more you focus on cash flow, the more the other 3 will shrink and vice versa.

Hi Wangyu Her, My name is Rebecca and my husband, Nick Knox III and I have run Captain Save a Home LLC, Brew City REI Club (a private network of our trusted real estate friends), Brew City REI Training Cafe (ala carte style real estate mentoring/coaching) and Wisconsin Contractor and Handyman Club (contractor-investor connection platform) based out of Milwaukee, WI for the past 11 years.

I am leaving a career as the Vice President of a manufacturing company in Wisconsin, interested in branching out into real estate investing.  

I would suggest talking to the other SUCCESSFUL investors in your area to see which banks they use and get a referral to the property person to talk to - A DECISION MAKER like the bank President, Vice-President, or Chief Loan Officer.

I don't disagree that having creative investing strategies under your belt is a good thing but you don't need to learn them first before doing rentals or vice versa for that matter.

My plan is to learn the industry, make some money from RE, continue freelance design and help other realtors with design along the way - I am hoping that one end feeds the other and vice versa.

And vice versa.What do you see happening?

Are there any investment funds that also use leverage (like from commercial lenders vice just accredited investors) so that I can multiply my investment faster?

I guess to use your analogy, what you consider a super model, I might consider the person to be average and vice versa :-)