However, as my father the mechanic said: "You get paid to fix cars, not polish tools".So you spend a lot of time on goes-in-tas and you're stuck.  

If I can, the plan would be to take a 5% conventional owner-occupied loan for the multi-family, house-hack by living in a unit and renting out the rest and maybe polish up the cosmetics (not spend much, since I won't be getting it back except through a potential minor rent increase).

I'm a epoxy floor installer and concrete polisher at liquid floors Inc. started installing floors all thru out the southeast at 17 yrs old, Now officially 26 just really excited to try something new and get started with REI!

The world is full of travel let’s that love to explore areas on the “front edge” before they become too polished, and they typically know the risks.

Acquisition ($3,500), various materials (subfloor, flooring, paint, water heater, sink, countertops, polishing materials.

Allow me to polish my crystal ball and see what she says: Change.Yes change is always a constant in Real Estate.When more people feel comfortable selling and put their property for sale the skyrocketing values will level off.There is no hope of building our way out of this fast.There still are almost five million houses in forbearance, haven't paid since 3/2020- will those people find pre pandemic paying jobs?

It would not be surprised if he started fixing some of this stuff but he's was not as polished as I had hoped and I didn't want to pay to wait for him to fix it.

You can always polish a turd, but you can't polish your neighbors turd.Pics look great! 

That brings us to the next mistake.Real Estate Investing Mistake #5: Not polishing your presentationThink about just how lucrative apartment investing can be: it’s possible to use other people’s money to buy an investment that will pay you significant sums every month, without your doing the daily management of that property.

At the end seems like all big companies always look back and share good feedback/experiences on what they wish they knew ahead, this and that and are able to restructure and polish their legal structure into their current standards or newer business strategies.In summary for us here is what I see (short version, no cpa review yet)short term: 2 member LLC (zero employee), no income revenue, get it taxed as s-corp (holding) with possible dba or other llc under it.long term: To start shielding big cash revenue, involvement of future investments / investors then go for C-corp restructure.