Sell your house and find another way to make money.

After assessing the cost of remodeling, and either renting or selling the property weighed against the advantages of selling as is to a builder it seems to make more sense to sell it as is. 

Here is what one of the new people I coach from Socal did with a property in Phoenix I helped him find. He has taken his training seriously. It’s a Subto (Subject To) that I helped him buy “off market” and he chose to...

We planned to live here for two years, do a "live and flip", and then sell it and use the capital for other investments.  

Rent until tenants move out then sell it and reinvest long distance.

My client was selling a duplex in the city and when they went to sell, they found out that the guy they bought it from did a whole bunch of unpermitted work and the inspector prior to the current one was his buddy and let it pass.

.- The guy with 3,000 posts on BP may be selling you something, like a totally unnecessary $10,000 course or “mentorship”.

Nothing held back for maintenance because the houses they recommend buying are all newly rehabbed, and nothing held back for capital expenses because you should sell them in less than five years and move into multifamily investments so nothing major should break before then. 

Some of my most successful clients have done exactly as you described they had a JOB with a REIT or developer and learned their craft before launching out.Trying to get this type of education paying  companies that just sell short term training is very hit and miss. 

If his real estate business is brokerage for home owners buying and selling their primary residences, then he probably does not have the knowledge to help someone invest in real estate.