Many sacrifices will be made but i will attain my goals.

--Run a Light & Tight Ship“Perfection is not attainable.

.), meaning that there is significant potential in building equity by buying the home and doing these renovations and attaining a high ARV.I will most likely have the opportunity to purchase the place in a direct below market value. 

Because losses reduce your overall taxable income, and you may attain not only a discount on the conversion to a Roth IRA, but you may also be in a much lower tax bracket in the 2020 tax year.

If you can't do that, question yourself about your abilities to achieve it in RE.2) AFTER attaining at least a medium level of success in your profession, build a business from it.

Update: Refi's and non QM loans have been placed on hold by most lenders as they change their policies as a response to the fallout from COVID-19 lending as a whole has changed a bit over the past few weeks things like lending requirements have changed a bit as many lenders minimum credit score to attain a mortgage has been increased to the mid to low 600's.

(MLS access is easily attainable these days for non agents for pennies or free depending on how much work you want t put in vs automate)On the flip side I'm really not interested in the average agents rehab cost estimate is, as I have my own views, experience and plans there.

Any advice on attaining the initial 50K? 

I just want to make sure that success is still attainable without that intrinsic love of houses that so many RE investors seem to have.

. $150-200/unit/month is probably more attainable.