Money well spent for the learning experience.  

Homes there carried an average listing price of $404,585, an average sale price of $445,651 and spent an average of 72 days on the market."

This will help direct your search to the right areas, property types and price point.If you're purchasing all-cash, skip that step.Depending on your goal and preferred timeline for closing, the majority of your time should be spent searching for and analyzing deals.Searching: Look at public listing sites; connect with an investor friendly agent and choose 1 to work with who can search MLS and off-market inventory; for additional off-market options, consider growing your own database of wholesalers and homeowners Analyzing: Your agent can send comps and you can also search public listing sites for sold homes.

Appreciate all your feedback.The vast, vast majority of properties in Baltimore city, especially city properties cost more to rehab than they are worth, effectively totaling the properties, it’s great that you want to help fix up Baltimore but you’d be better spent working with habitat for humanity or something as opposed to flipping in Baltimore, especially in the cheapest areas.  

If it takes 6 months to a year to build, that's tons of loss opportunity costs and carrying costs spent. 3.

I've spent a lot of time posting on the forums as in hours.

Best money I have ever spent!

I spent 20K for a mentorship that hasnt given me a fraction of what i am gaining from being in the gator community.

I spent over a decade in multi-phasic residential development before leaving the "W2 league" of things.

I can run the numbers for NOI-depreciation and this holds true, but not all of the operating expenses are deductible (or at least maintenance, vacancy and cap ex aren’t until that money is spent).