Based on a properties characteristics, experience will tell you of the hidden potential problems a buyer could run into during a rehab and nothing will cement their trust in you more than when they see your evaluation of the property and the numbers prove out.

If you're going to do it your self just look at the bags in the cement isle and read directions.

We had to remove the entire drain line from the sink connection to where it entered the outside sewer line; completely clogged with clay litter that was slowly turning into a cement version of the stuff.Gail

Instead try to make business friends with those who you believe may be useful to you in the future, and those who share a common interest in the type of Real Estate Investing you intend to do (no matter what their level of knowledge and experience is).Have some business cards printed only with you name, your email and your cellular number and the type of investor you hope to be (such as single family buy and hold investor).Keep going to the meetups and making new friends and re-cementing bonds with existing business friends.

Perhaps....Sell on better QUALITY at a comparable price point.Some of the bigger guys (right now) are lipstick on a pig as far as quality goes--low end electrical sockets, gaps in the framing, cheap cement slumps etc...

EACH tile must be on cement board NOT drywall like flip shows. 

I would definitely use hardibacker or cement board.

I had to have an abatement contractor remove cement/asbestos shingles on a commercial building before demolition and found that the difference in bids between contractors was huge, so get multiple bids. 

I even had a broken cement double laundry sink that leaked.

-I was told that you can't put down cement base self leveling underlayment over the hard wood because of how the hardwood moves it would just break up-where the two woods come together the wood gives quite a bit when you step on it.Do I rip out the existing hardwood and start over from the subfloor, where I could put down self leveling if needed.