You need to be extremely thorough with your scope of work, and unfortunately the sun porch was not salvageable, but fortunately the contractor helped knock it out of the park and the home looks amazing now!

of course he may have been a clueless dude in Indy and other markets and to me the money he was making just blinded him and his wife.. the move to Portugal was strategic to the extreme.

Your boss seems to be extreme with this and won't change - unless you force it.Why don't you make a list of everything you do each for a week?

Cash flowing in the type of market we have is extremely difficult, especially with such a small down payment. 

Some jurisdictions are taking the statewide ADU rules and going much further extreme.  

Just depends on how extreme you want to take things.As far as financing, condos can be tough. 

Quote from @Kyle Deboer: Being a beginner, the only markets that I am really tapped into at the moment are all extremely mainstream (zillow, realtor, etc.) and I see everyone saying I should learn to tap into underground markets but I can't seem to find anyone explaining how...

It is extremely important that we get all claims submitted soon for investors.

So the probability of someone replacing their W2 income is extremely low.  

I just started my direct mail campaign and it took a whole Sunday (3:30-9PM) to do 200 letters and this was about as automatic as the average Joe could get:Printed Yellow letters using Officejet printer (Paper from Amazon)Printed envelopes using the same printer (Envelopes from Dollar Store)Bought 400 forever stamps from the Post Office to create the "genuine" effectStill, folding and stuffing papers was an extremely underestimated variable.