I guess that art is figuring an FMV, and -I imagine- that comes from looking at enough recent sales.

I'm now 30 yrs old and after spending the majority of my 20's heavily involved in the arts, I needed to shift gears toward something much more concrete, stable, and profitable.

Is this an art or a science?

You really need to understand what a Realtor does, they have this business down to an art so doing things bass ackwards just doesn't make since.

Assessing the ability of people to pay as agreed is an art, while setting guidelines weeds out many applicants by association there will never be any system that will eliminate eyeballing folks, sizing them up with personal impressions.

It is an art form.

It always helps keep us going :) @Art Shalomov, my collections debt is about a year old.

That is great in getting their feet wet in the world of real estate from a rehab/construction perspective, but it sounds like the program will focus on this aspect and not provide real world experience in some other critical areas.Since the properties the program will be working on are already acquired, there is a critical gap in the real estate investment mindset that the program does not immerse students in, and that is the art of sourcing, negotiating and closing a property at a good value.

You had best get on the fast track for learning the art of landlording! 

He mentioned art galleries, coffee shop and boutique shops, but I don't think it needs to be sterotypically "gay things" in order for the rule to hold true.Now in fairness, I should say that when I explained this theory to a colleague of mine who is a somewhat cynical Black man, he opined that what the gays were adding to the neighborhoods that cause them to gentrify was not sophisticated amenities, but rather "White faces."