After that's under control, focus on increasing income through additional work at your current job, taking on a side hustle, or finding ways to increase income on your existing rental.At the same time, educate yourself.

Like you I also have the RE license to keep some of the commissions and better control. 

If you get your system and modeling down and follow what I mentioned above with respect to coming up with your strike price/offer price, you shouldn't look back if someone overpays for the property.

It's a shared house so they have no renter's rights giving the owner huge leverage and control. 

Remote investing can work well with the right systems in place!

I think the real magic comes in when you develop a system that allows you to create these cash flowing rentals from the vast number of vacant homes in the inner city. 

Essentially what I found is you have to find projects with massive ARV for their system to work.

You’ll develop resilience, leadership, negotiation skills, vision, emotional control, and more.

It sound like you have your area under control. 

Good question, they seem to be all over the place depending on the area and I am not an insurance specialist, I think typically 1.5-2x normal rates but I could be off by a bit i have been honing in on White Hawk if you know that development and its in the pines but it does have water system with hydrants but volunteer fire department ..