After spending months and months negotiating water liens, and multiple loans etc. and the units needing total gut rehab making an 8k return is too small.I can just as easily work on semi-performing apartment buildings or fully performing and put the same time in and make a much greater return for my time.So for 2,400,000 25% down is 600,000 before legal and closing costs and due diligence.

I’ll use a semi gloss bright white on the ceilings and trim.

I think the best I can do near my house (<30 min) would be to buy a SFH fixer for ~120k in a semi-marginal area, put 10K into it, and get $1200-1400/mo in rent.

If you use the standard 70% minus repairs rule on that, take into account that your profit margin is normally about 15% of the ARV for a semi-experienced rehabber.

We want to move to Aiken, SC to semi-retire and invest in real estate.

Then look to CDs/Time Deposits at 30 days and stager maturities so that funds come due every month, then quarterly, the semi-annually then annually as your position improves and use other savings accounts/investments.

They are semi-permanent housing and have a fairly short shelf life.

My first and biggest complaint was the trainer, he was a terrible speaker.My girlfriend is a professional speaker/educator for a medical device company and I am a semi-professional magician/comedian, so I know a thing or two about public speaking.He was late both starting and finishing every day; he was also late for every single break and lunch.And although our trainer was passionate about the material, he was not supportive and had absolutely no apathy for his audience.The concepts they were teaching, often times go against deeply ingrained ideas some of us have held for 25+ years or more and would stir up deep emotions.Whenever a question was asked for more information, he would yell “you don’t need to know the details!”.

I'm working with a semi-experienced flipper (3 years of about 4 houses a year) who is giving me advice (my first two flips flopped).

My understanding is he is wanting to slow down and semi retire.