When you have things that you do not know how bad they are until you open up pandora's box, it is hard to perfectly predict the cost.I'd be happy to have a more in-depth conversation if interested. 

I've purchased Joe McCall's coaching and used his Lease Option Strategies and made multiple 5 figures through his teachings alone.sorry you had a bad experience @Ryan Phu, but my guess is that it would've been much better if you got a deal from it correct?  

A "miserable corporate job to no where" isn't all that bad - health insurance benefits, 401k matching, probably some sort of discount stock purchase plan, stability, lenders like it.

I find it hard to believe such a bad market could get worse, but only if you know why it’s doing so poorly compared to the rest of the country.

Unfortunately there competitiveness in the market and cut throat antics give the other offices (company) a bad name. 

Back home I would make a packet for my appraiser and never had a bad appraisal due to the that I specified the value add and the Reno amount and broke it down so they saw the potential and it always worked.  

Quote from @Edgar Duarte: hi allI would love to get some perspective from your expertise, we have a property that we would have to sell in 2025 to avoid paying taxes on the capital gains, we believe we rcan sell it for $700K and get an equity of almost $500K after paying the mortgage balance, if we invest all of it option in index funds at 7% rate (standard com growth calculator), or in more rental properties as we are all here for, I can get the equity of around $900K.option B would be keep paying the house at 2.3% int rate while we have it in AirBnB and maybe sell it in 10 years for $900K, knowing that we would be paying taxes but it is not that bad still. or we can 1031 at that point?

Not bad, especially considering it’ll take about 9 months for permits and a year for construction.Now, let’s say you decide to do a lot split with two 4,000-square-foot duplexes.

If there is a choice to be made, it comes down to what an investor "likes" or prefers about one over the other? 

$280k home for $2,500 rent is a personal choice.