The market I'm working in is totally locked up.

Investors tend to buy more often then regular home buyers BUT if your area the investor price point is low you would have to do a crap ton of sales to be close to regular sales.In commercial if you love working with numbers you can usually just work weekdays during the daytime and no weekends.

There is no comparison. 

When something goes into default, like this property has has, I have little to no control yet assumed a lot of risk. 

There is virtually no reason to keep “cash” on hand for repairs. 

No, the training isn't free but neither is any other kind of training.  

Hi @Alex Lee I would avoid 203K loan and work with conventional renovation loan based on knowing you'll be forced to use 203k certified contractors which will cost more money and offer inflated pricing because they must follow 203k guidelines. 

Otherwise, I would work backwards from the laundry basin for flow and work your way up to the slow faucet. 

In a small town of Alaska and at the peak of COVID there was no Negotiation at that time haha.

I would go the VA loan if you can, no pmi will help your debt ratio as well.