Always deferred all questions and concerns to my PM.It's all a good retrospective. 

Lessons Learned: I shouldn't have stopped after first one, retrospectively I should have understood, I found a good property management team, made good connections with construction crew and a good RE agent.

In retrospect I think I should have tried putting it with property management before selling it.

It's easier to mitigate tax burden prospectively rather than retrospectively.

I don't doubt you could pull it off, but getting your house situation fixed with a duplex frees up your time to start looking for deal #2.In my case, I'm a bit busy with my rehab and in retrospect could have gone into a turn key or close to it, just to set up home base. 

In retrospect i would have loved to start out of state with the opportunities i am seeing and what i know now.I naturally built connections starting with my first realtor, who introduced me to my lender, who introduced me to my inspector, who introduced me to my contractor and going down the line. 

In retrospect what I should have done was withhold payment of the auction deposit until I was able to inspect the inside. 

In retrospect, what could you have saved or cut out in order to lessen the rehab costs to be able to pull out more in line of your initial investment?

In retrospect, it would've made more sense to do a major plumbing upgrade all at once. 

In retrospect we could have floated financing for a couple months without tenants and rehab costs.