In case of buying opportunity or needed to weather a bear market.

In a full service lease, the landlord bears all the costs of property taxes, insurance, the common areas and maintenance.

@Filipe Pereira,Yes - even mid-level rehabs sometimes need an architect, especially when someone wants to remove a load bearing wall to make a more open living space, or make changes in the support for the main floor joists, etc.Sometimes people will add a story to a 1-story home.

To investigate these RECs, we propose to install two sub-slab soil gas probes to collect sub-slab soil gas samples which will be analyzed for VOCs and APH.

That 3rd fact to me makes me lean towards a mentor IF:you can find the right one who can actually teach you...show you by example what you need to do to become successful (ie: blueprint for success)has a track record of successful students that have blazed a path before you showed up.Look, If the right mentor can shave 10 years of mistakes and drastically shorten your learning curve in any given profession or sport I would bear the question. . 

Bear in mind, with Real Estate, there is always something to fix and/or replace even if you buy other types of Real Estate 🤗

We've done subdivisions that cost 6 figures.There are municipal costs, engineering costs, survey costs, soil costs, flood, wetlands, steams, and historic considerations.You need to know what the zoning actually is and what are permitted uses as well as minimum criteria like, lot size, lot width, setbacks, etc.

Most RE investors charge the highest price the market will bear, regardless of their cost basis.

This is not a paper xfer but an actual transfer from an interest bearing account for that specific pile of money (not to be co-mingled with another tenant's deposit) into your operating funds account. 

permits are not often pulled for a lot of what he is talking about.. subs are not required to be licensed that's a huge problem Also building codes in TExas are weak  one really needs to be aware of what your buying there.. next thing will be soil and foundation issues.