Local you can leverage your local knowledge about areas gentrifying, or large zoning changes (midway district, city of San Diego ADU bonus program, etc), or large funded development projects (Chula Vista bat front, etc). 

Our biggest goal is build relationships in the Chicago real estate community, getting referral is just a nice bonus.

It’s 100% bonus depreciation in 2022, 80% in 2023, 60% in 2024, 40% in 2025, 20% in 2026 and completely phased out in 2027.

I'm quite sure you will be in a great place to start investing when you sign that attending cheque with an enormous sign-on bonus.  

@Jon Kim, I'm reading up on the bonus depreciation as we speak, but I'll refrain from giving any advice as I'm not a CPA. 

Bonus #2: if you send cards or do cold calling and use VA, have a script for people who are not looking to sell, but to buy more - those are also cash buyers often.

I would think in under an hour of study you could figure out what cards to apply for and get some nice signup bonuses.

I did bonus depreciation on both properties Will I need to worry about paying the taxes back if I 1031 into LTRs?

I was able to get a good deal on the house I was interested in due to this fact but it’s a half done flip/reno so there’s a lot of work halfway started throughout the house. 2 areas in particular I’m unsure of what to do with is the walls and attic, any suggestions or ideas of how you would be finish would be greatly appreciated (adding links to specific products are a bonus lol)! 

The biggest advice to keep the contractor motivated is to give them a 10% bonus if they finish before schedule and deduct 5% if they run over finish date.