Brian basically answered how I would have regardless of your strategy and market becasue the fact is, granite these days is so cost effective, it makes sense to put it in all units, both flips and rentals.In your lower income rentals, your tenants will damage and destroy countertops that are of the cheaper variety and as such, you will be replacing them more often.

You mentioned a wide variety of interests - so my suggestion is to focus on one or two that really resonate with you and dive in.

Lenders like to see a variety and multiple active lines of credit.

These same groups are targeted by buy and hold investors, fix and flip investors, and real estate agents, as well as wholesalers, and a wide variety of people with no idea what their doing or how to close a deal but who just completed a weekend training seminar and are as high on excitement as they are lacking in knowledge.What it takes to enter the wholesaling business and make it profitable enough so that you aren’t working for less than fast food wages, is, besides knowledge, salesmanship, persistence, etc …MONEY.

While there is not the variety of amenities that most people from an urban area would enjoy and deem necessary, such as dining or shopping, those living in smaller communities look for different aspects. 

I use a variety of other types of paints for special projects. 

You can purchase your new primary with a variety of low down payment options and may not even need to pull much (or any) equity out of the current house.

I have had to remove basketball courts in the past due to a variety of issues.

After researching quite a bit, I have come across the niche in which investors seek out 5-20 unit commercial properties for a variety of reasons.

Now that I *am* married, for a variety of reasons not worth getting into, I absolutely consider it a joint asset and am considering adding my wife to the title  to make that official.I thought I would need to do this title change at the time of the refi, but my current lender and one I'm considering doing the refi with both said I could basically do the title change before, at the same time as, or after the refi since it's just adding my spouse.