Once in a blue moon you get a price so good you aren't concerned about what's going on the inside.

Very close to metro (yellow and blue line). 

I read that Amazon employees are something like 55% mass transit users so the best access would be along the DC metro blue and yellow lines.   

At the end of those podcast they ask the person being interview for book recommendations, there is also a post on here somewhere that list all the books mentioned in each podcast.Then when you have a grasp of the type of investing you would like to do buy those books and listen to those podcast.With that being said some of my favorite are: The first is more general the others are Multifamily (can you guess what I picked after going through the podcast)Blue Ocean opportunities by Medawar Wheel Barrow of Profits By Gino BarbaroHow to create lifetime cash flow through MF properties by Rod Khleif (he ask for your email in exchange for the book).....Buying and Selling Apartment Buildings By Berges

Vacancy rate: I've bought in blue collar area called international city, which has the lowest vacancy rates in the country.

So it's going to be another few years until there is a surplus of "blue-color" homes that investors can buy and rehab, due to them having deferred maintenance.

In my hi,blue opinion you should be thanking him for the (tough) feedback and take at least some of what he said into consideration.

The next thing you need to do is get blue prints made to what you want to do, get estimates. 

I can Google reviews until blue in the face, but a real referral from a fellow investor would be great.  

The top 20 richest people made their wealth in Retail and owning shares of a blue Chip company such as Jeff Bezo's ($112 Billion) who is the first to be worth 100 Billion.