Her unit needs to be improved or I fear that the costs to fis it up will grow without decent maintenance.

As I'm looking for a house hack, I'd really love to live in a decent area (some in Jersey City can be iffy).

That is if purchasing EXISTING performing investment real estate AND have very good clarity of every facet of the transaction ESPECIALLY reasoning for seller selling, AND you have decent market intelligence. 

I hold a decent-sized portfolio in Columbus and Cleveland and have seen higher appreciation in my Columbus portfolio.

Realistically we will be getting closer to retail pricing although we are are looking at some off market properties to try to get a discount.In terms of cash flows, from the modeling I have done, there looks to a decent amount of cashflow on these properties when modeling at retail so I am curious why there would be no cash flow on BRRRR strategies?

And someone jumping into this as a complete newbie can expect that they have a decent chance of making some expensive newbie mistakes.

Some "things" are long shots at paying off for their personality type and they realize that.Just my 2 cents!

There's a decent chance that if you have good credit and improve your DTI over the next year, you can put a Heloc on the property while it's still your primary to unlock some of that equity if needed.

He seems to be a decent and smart guy though I have not invested with him.

When get unit all set, lights on, door ajar, you go outside to curb view, go to wide-side shot and you start video.