Are permits easy to obtain or does it significantly delay the rehab timeline?

For example, common tricks of the trade are to leave out property management fees (typically around 10% of rental income) and just explain it away as "We assume you'll self-manage", or to minimize repair costs and/or leave out capex or property taxes on the P&L.

They are doing their best o minimize dirt (though that's nearly impossible when you're demolishing a 100+ year old chimney)More details to follow.  

The other possibility is we test raising 1/4 of the rents and tenant loss is minimal, maybe we just go ahead with the rest. 

I have minimal to no other expenses. 

There's a lot about stopping police brutality, minimizing the systemic dehumanization of black people in the hands of the authorities, and I can certainly applaud that.

Needless to say, I pressed her to figure it out and we closed on property #5 in Aug 2018.It was then that I got on BP, researched my current PM’s company, and connected with a few people that also used this PM company and they all told me to run (I’ve used them since 2006, still do, and had minimal trouble but I knew this broker wasn’t going to get me to my goals).Finding the perfect Broker and Property ManagerBack in Germany, I knew I needed to find a broker who also did property management.

My goal is to have 20k to invest and to be safe I want an extra 5k to have a backup in case of unplanned costs due to inexperience in the buying process, having vacancy the first months, etc...Question 1: Does it make sense to minimize my 401k contribution to nearly nothing to speed up my savings for REI?

I am stabilizing my newly purchase properties atm and have elected to do it one at a time to increase the rent roll because they're so terribly low but am keeping my other buildings as is to minimize vacancy and stress level. 

You could use a faster delay financing option but the new loan amount (ReFi) can be no more than the documented amount of the borrower's initial investment.