This will usually lead you directly to low barrier stagnant markets where the cash flow represented in your spreadsheet does not transfer to reality and the most of the equity is "paper equity" because you will never see it materialize yet many look at completing the BRRRR as the ultimate success.I recognize I am using some assumptions but let's assume you have $100k to invest and purchase and renovate a home in MARKET A for $400K but once renovated the home is worth $500K.

My ultimate goal is to use this capital to generate enough cash flow to focus on real estate full-time.

Lowering the primary mortgage payment is the ultimate goal, not acquiring new properties. 

Ultimately, my goal is to scale my portfolio and purchase a second property within 1-2 years after graduating.

Ultimately, I realized that trying to wait for a perfect moment feels a lot like attempting to time the stock market or predict a real estate bubble.There may be advantages to waiting and seeing how the election affects market policies, but it's hard to predict when those policies will take effect or how they’ll impact the market.

Ultimately I think the main focus of the visit is to familiarize yourself with the property (since you have not seen it in person yet) and check on the rehab work and meet your contractor and PM. 

Your loan agreement will ultimately dictate what you can and can't do with the property. 

A capital improvement is not - it gets added to the basis which ultimately reduces the tax due on sale but it’s not tax deductible in the sense in reduces current income. 

Ultimately, these challenges culminated in widespread layoffs at FlipOS, which forced me into involuntary cancel contracts for properties originally earmarked for sale to them.

When you are investing with a capital raiser, you are ultimately investing in whoever they are partnering with as the operator, and you must do your due diligence on that complete team and look at their track record.