Demonstrated enthusiasm for real estate with a high degree of creativity, vision, and technical aptitudeHigh level of communication/critical thinking abilityInternship or work experience in real estate or finance industry preferredWork well in a team based environment with open communicationAbility to analyze financial statementssome of the other things asked to analyze financial statements.I have started reading but plan on taking principles of accounting for a short 3-week summer course for credibility. 

I'm really grateful to be a part of a platform that encourages collaboration between everyone with all levels of experience and knowledge. 

For you to find 1% properties you will need to look in c level neighborhoods.

Mine were much worse on multiple levels and had to go.

I came across a really cool tool that helps you analyze regions' evictions rates and other metrics.https://evictionlab.org is the tool.You can sort the rate of evictions by states and compare stats by income levels, rates of evictions by days, and even rental property rates. 

With the contribution levels that I am doing now I am able to set aside some money for real estate investing (I bought my first single family rental early this year) but I am unsure if I should be focusing more on rental since I will be able to live off of the rental revenue at any age.

Level 5 leadership - The level 5 leader builds enduring greatness through paradoxical personal humility and professional will.

I would intern at what ever real estate companies your interested in.My daughter was interested in finance.. and she interned during collage with a high level appraisal company that did apprasing for emanate domain cases.. and she worked on the one in Napa CA were the state and city bought out a big swatch of the napa river for flood control project and many business had to be relocated from hotel to shopping center to car dealer all of them needed to be valued.. it was high level work she enjoyed it.she then went on to graduate top of her class at Davis CA.. in managerial economics degree and promptly got snapped up my Intel after offers from Apple and Micro soft.now 14 years later she is a SEnior controller and a Dave Ramsey disciple which means at her age home just about paid for 2 kids in grade school and NO debt and a ton of savings and max's out her 401k.. she has little interest in real estate she owns one rental but only rents it to family. that was her path.  

“REFINANCE”Since buying a fixer upper is generally cash heavy and now your property is no longer a fixer upper, its time to get a traditional mortgage and pay you (or your investors) back.

And why should people who know what they are doing fall to the level of the "time wasters" Why don't the "time wasters" simply get serious?