Down the road 5 miles there is another community doing nothing but high end 32'x80' with attached garages that sells around 20 homes a year for $135K.Part of the difference is the second community is capital restrained from building out faster, but they still have a very sound operation I would love to own if I were younger.

When I left IT, I tried real estate investing on my own and eventually got it right, but it would have gone much faster and more profitably if I had a mentor.

Most want to just drop some weight.  

If you were constructing a spreadsheet with weighted averages, what would command the most weight?

Most older boilers had a pump that ran at one speed, either on or off, which led to the motor burning out faster.

Houses with Solar sell faster and sell for a premium equal to the cost of the solar system.  

In between tenants, weight the cost effectiveness of improving the appearance by replacing fixtures... and if/when they do break, don't buy junk.

I also want to keep my current home and rent it out (My mortgage is 978 and I can rent it out for around 1300) – this isn’t a great ROI but the area it is in is slowly increasing in value three years ago I purchased it for 142k and now it’s is valued at 10k more at least.Flipping would allow me to gather more cash, faster, which I could use both towards buying a home in the city for myself AND buying homes for rentals.

Use tools that take the weight and stress of your body.

Then call your guys and ask how much they charge per lf of let's say wall framing, enter the info and you're goodThen add your general conditionsThen a table for tax, markup, etc.It stinks to make but it's worth twice its weight in gold.